GSM Encryption Broken
Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2009A German computer engineer said Monday that he had deciphered and published the encryption of GSM phones, reports the NY Times and ComputerWorld. About 3.5 billion wireless connections use G.S.M. phones, with about 300 million consumers in North America. The encryption standard was adopted in 1988.
“I don’t think anything we did was illegal,” Knoll [...]





