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Re: [Cryptography] The crypto behind the blackphone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Daniel_Cegie=B3ka?=)
Mon Jan 27 01:43:34 2014
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From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Daniel_Cegie=B3ka?= <daniel.cegielka@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:41:27 +0100
To: Ralf Senderek <crypto@senderek.ie>
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SilentCircle crypto products? I do not think it will be something new.
The questions are more about locked IMEI etc. I don't know how they
will solve the baseband problem (closed-source proprietary chip/RTOS
running alongside e.g. Android).
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428632/gps-weakness-could-enable-mass-=
smartphone-hacking/
http://reverse.put.as/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/basebandplayground-luismir=
as.pdf
Crypto is the smallest problem in this project.
Daniel
2014-01-27 Ralf Senderek <crypto@senderek.ie>:
>
> While the list hesitates to draft a clear picture of the next generation
> secure communication solution, Phillip Zimmerman has the NSA-proof,
> comprehesive tool ready for sale, the blackphone.
>
> According to the news here
> http://thehackernews.com/2014/01/Blackphone-encypted-PrivatOS-smartphone-=
Silent-Circle_15.html#
> the blackphone is "a Smartphone that=92s been designed to enable secure,
> encrypted communications, private browsing and secure file-sharing." And =
it
> is based on an open source OS called PrivatOS, derived from Android.
>
> Does anyone know more about the crypto behind the blackphone?
> Is it a proprietary solution or an attempt to solve the real problem?
>
>
> --ralf
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