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A minor victory!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Rose)
Thu Dec 4 14:35:54 1997
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 12:12:50 +1000
To: daw@cs.berkeley.edu, mab@crypto.com, schneier@counterpane.com,
geer@usenix.org
From: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
Cc: karn@qualcomm.com, cryptography@c2.net, dbentley@turing.une.edu.au,
patran@qualcomm.com
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Today the plenary of the ANSI accredited Telecommunications Industry
Association TR45 standards committee, which is the one in charge of wireless
phones, accepted (with surprisingly little debate) the process proposed by
its Ad Hoc Authentication Group for choosing future security related
algorithms and processes. Previously, everything was kept "as secret as
possible" (which translates to "secret enough to interfere with review, but
otherwise not secret enough").
Now, algorithms, to be accepted for consideration, must have been published
in open literature and "sufficiently scrutinised". During the selection
process both internal and public review cycles of the full proposal
(algorithms, protocols, interfaces, everything) are mandatory.
This comes exactly 1 year after members of the AHAG were first alerted to a
weakness in CMEA (Cellular Message Encryption Algorithm).
Greg.
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