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GSM encryption is well past its shelf life in terms of security and privacy

probe · 2009-09-09 19:22:50

You can park a vehicle near a government building, bank head office or trading room, office building, or other place of interest and record the mobile phone traffic on a hard drive. Take it “home” and decrypt the stored data stream to listen to these organisation’s “secrets” at one’s leisure. All encryption systems have a…

09-09-2009 08:22PM

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You can park a vehicle near a government building, bank head office or trading room, office building, or other place of interest and record the mobile phone traffic on a hard drive. Take it “home” and decrypt the stored data stream to listen to these organisation’s “secrets” at one’s leisure.

All encryption systems have a limited shelf life due to the increasing speed of computers. Some banks are still using 1,024 bit public keys for their online banking (and no multi-factor authentication). Asking for trouble. But who cares?

Steve Gibson has done some research on GSM security this week – listen to him here:

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/aolradio.podcast.aol.com/sn/SN-213.mp3

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