[2469] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Secure Cell Phones for State
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris The Iceman Commeth Liljensto)
Fri Apr 10 18:54:24 1998
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:05:40 +0000
From: "Chris The Iceman Commeth Liljenstolpe" <cds@io.com>
Reply-To: cds@io.com
To: "John Young" <jya@pipeline.com>, cryptography@c2.net
Greetings,
As far as I know, the phones in question are STU-III compatable. I
haven't actually gotten to see one up close and personal, however....
Chris
--On Thursday, 09 April, 1998, 20:18 -0400 "John Young" <jya@pipeline.com>
wrote:
> U.S. State Dept Press Briefing today:
>
> Briefer: James Rubin
>
> Now, I have a piece of show-and-tell for you, which I do rarely around
> here. But I thought this was interesting enough, even for you cynical
> and jaded journalists. This is a secure cell phone. Lieutenant General
> Kenneth Minihan, Director of the National Security Agency, presented
> Secretary Albright with a bank of Motorola Cipher-Tac 2000 security
> modules to provide secure cellular communications.
>
> This state of the art secure voice cellular technology will offer the
> highest level of security wherever and whenever the Secretary and her
> top advisors need to protect their communications. So when you see us
> carrying this beast around, rather than the slim-line phones we usually
> like to use, you'll know that's because we're trying to have a secure
> call. That is not only for the obvious good reason that we want to make
> sure nobody is interfering, but we also want to make sure that nobody is
> making transcripts and passing them around for a variety of perfidious
> reasons.
>
> So this here is the original, first secure cell phone to be delivered to
> Secretary Albright, and we thought you guys might get a kick out of
> that.
>
> -----
>
> Would anyone know the security technology of this unit and its support
> system? And how it compares to those of competitors in the US and
> outside?
>
---
Chris "Mr. Safety" Liljenstolpe mailto: cds@io.com http://www.io.com/~cds
Currently working for the US Antarctic Program @ McMurdo Station, Antarctica
-----
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace.
We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that
feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget
that ye were our countrymen. -- Samuel Adams
