Re: Another week, another GSM cipher bites the dust

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

Now, *this* is news.


On 1/12/10 12:22 PM, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:
> http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2010/01/another_week_another_gsm.html
>
> "Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, and Adi Shamir have released a paper showing that they've broken KASUMI,
> the cipher used in encrypting 3G GSM communications.
> KASUMI is also known as A5/3, which is confusing because it's only been a week since breaks on A5/1,
> a completely different cipher, were publicized.
> So if you're wondering if this is last week's news, it isn't. It's next week's news.
>
> The paper isn't up on IACR's Eprint archive yet, but copies of it are circulating around privately. I'm writing about 
> it with Adi Shamir's permission."
> --clip--
>
> Juha-Matti
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