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Home Wireless Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Armbrust)
Thu Mar 12 15:31:22 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 12:18:05 -0700
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Mark Armbrust <marka@ff.com>
>From EE Times, March 9, 1998:
>WIRELESS-NETWORD DEBATE HITS HOME
>by Stephan Ohr and Rick Boyd-Merritt
>
>Los Angeles -- A consortium of PC-industry heavyweights, communications
>and chip companies used the Computer and Telephony conference, held here,
>to announce their intent to write a standard for home wireless networks.
>...
>The homeRF spec will include use of a 40-bit encryption code. Since the
>working group envisions that many consumers will use cordless phones on
>the homeRF network to conduct financial transactions over the internet,
>it must be highly secure.
>From their web page (http://www.homerf.org):
> Data security: Blowfish encryption algorithm (over 1 trillion codes)
Sounds like the feds have been talking to them. Someone with crypto
credentials should clue them in.
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