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Re: Secure phones from VectroTel?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Ioannidis)
Tue May 23 19:14:18 2006
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 13:45:15 -0400
From: John Ioannidis <ji@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:19:38AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> Following the links from a /. story about a secure(?) mobile phone
> VectroTel in Switzerland is selling, I came across the fact that this
> firm sells a full line of encrypted phones.
>
> http://www.vectrotel.ch/
>
Too little, too late. What are they doing, running a V.32bis modem
over the GSM analog channel? That would account for the worse voice
quality and the delays in the spec.
A friend showed me yesterday his EVDO-enabled, WinCE handheld, which
he was using to make phone calls over Skype (not that Skype is secure,
but that's another story).
/ji
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