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Re: Secure phones from VectroTel?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mis@seiden.com)
Wed May 24 07:52:06 2006
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:10:07 -0700
From: mis@seiden.com
To: John Ioannidis <ji@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20060523174514.GA12916@dynasty.cs.columbia.edu>
another contender (or could-be contender):
http://www.cryptophone.de/products/CPG10/index.html
(open source and built by people like rop gonggrijp and barry wels)
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:45:15PM -0400, John Ioannidis wrote:
> 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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