Cracking the GSM encryption just easier
For all respects, most of all, including the GSMA SIP an organization that represents most of the mobile operators out and continue to believe GSM very safe. In reality A5 / 1, the technology used to encrypt messages GSM was exposed to at least a decade. The sense of security seems to be based on the fact that the initial attack sites require a great deal of computing power, time, money and then carry out the crack. Therefore, an organisation should be particularly motivated to also want to crack the GSM service. Care to guess who has enough motivation?
It appears that researchers David Hulton, and Steve Miller has recently developed a technology to significantly reduce the time and computing power needed to crack A5 / 1 encryption. The two scientists also have patented their work personally. The effective changes in the original crack open all types of doors that make it easier for both white and black hat types of decode conversations GSM. On the basis of implicit uses of this technology, I had hoped to find out what motivates people to do this type of research, which is certainly controversial.
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