[2410] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Existing digital phone encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Simmons)
Tue Mar 31 00:40:25 1998
From: Jeff Simmons <jsimmons@goblin.punk.net>
To: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green), cryptography@c2.net
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 21:19:06 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19980330201907.00989290@netcom11.netcom.com> from "Lucky Green" at Mar 30, 98 08:19:07 pm
>
> 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?
This one is TDMA. I'd be interested in the types of encryption
that are being used by the other systems, also.
--
Jeff Simmons jsimmons@goblin.punk.net
"By these actions SRL became the first to operate intentionally lethal
machinery over the net with standard browser software."
-- Survival Research Laboratories web page (www.srl.org)
