Flaw in Cell-Phone Encryption Identified; Design Process Blamed

[Tom Worthington]

At 10:55 AM 21/03/97 +1000, Dan_Tebbutt@acp.com.au wrote:

>>This is a press release <http://www.counterpane.com/cmea.html> from...
>>
>>MINNEAPOLIS, MN. AND BERKELEY, CA., March 20, 1997 - Counterpane Systems
>>and UC Berkeley jointly announced today that researchers have discovered a
>>flaw in the privacy protection used in today's most advanced digital
>>cellular phones...
>...being deployed in today's digital cell phones, including CDMA, NAMPS, and
>TDMA...

Does this problem apply to the GSM system used in Australia and Europe?

ps: Had dinner with an AT&T vice president last week while we were both
visiting Tandem Thrust and was amused when he complained his "standard" US
cell phone didn't work in Australia.


Tom Worthington <tomw@acslink.net.au> President, Australian Computer
Society, GPO Box 446, Canberra ACT 2601 http://www.acslink.net.au/~tomw
Fax: +61 6 2496419
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