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Re: Secure Cell Phones for State
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Karn)
Fri Apr 10 15:29:23 1998
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 09:25:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
To: jya@pipeline.com
CC: cryptography@c2.net, karn@qualcomm.com
In-reply-to: <199804100018.UAA02645@camel7.mindspring.com> (message from John
Young on Thu, 09 Apr 1998 20:18:40 -0400)
I don't know about the Motorola phones, but a while back Qualcomm
built a bunch of prototype secure CDMA phones for NSA under a contract
project called "Condor". They insisted on hardware encryption,
originally using Fortezza PCMCIA cards but later it became apparent
that they really wanted STU-III. So we had to build a PCMCIA adapter
that stuck on the back of a Qualcomm CD-7000 (our first generation
CDMA portable, never sold on the market in large quantities).
This must all be public info, because NSA took photos of the units and
put them up in the National Cryptologic Museum.
Phil
