Talking about timely and untimely comments.
Check out Newsweek's credulous, confused, and tech-ignorant report
about the (pre-oversight-hearing) moaning and and weeping at Fort Meade.
Consider, with Newsweek, the momentous challenge the NSA confronts in e-mail
and Internet
> Real-Time Cryptanalysis of GSM's A5/1 on a PC
>
> Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir
At last! Congratulations are in order. Way to go, Alex and Adi!
Between the COMP128 and A5/2 work of our group and Alex and Adi's break of
A5/1, my motivation for finishing that software radio-based GSM interception
Lucky Green said:
> Being rather familiar with GSM crypto, allow me to say this: most GSM voice
> traffic globally is encrypted using A5/2. We know how to break A5/2 in five
> clock cycles on an ASIC....
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> A5/1 likely requires more clock cycles. How many clock cycles we don't know
> and won'
