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Re: Existing digital phone encryption

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Mon Mar 30 23:41:00 1998

Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:19:07 -0800
To: Jeff Simmons <jsimmons@goblin.punk.net>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803310127.RAA14989@goblin.punk.net>

At 17:27 98/03/30 -0800, Jeff Simmons wrote:
>I've just gotten a digital cellular phone.  One of many options is to 
>turn on digital encryption that supposedly kicks in whenever I talk to
>another digital cell phone.
>
>Can anyone point me to info on the crypto type and implementation?
>I've checked many places, but haven't found anything yet, and I
>have trouble imagining that it's worth a damn.

What type of digital phone do you have? CDMA, TDMA, GSM?

Thanks,


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