Cracking GSM

RobertM writes "Professor Eli Biham, one of the worlds most famous crypto analysts, together with two of his students presented an interesting paper on flaws in GSM at the IACR Crypto conference. The GSM association is not happy. Read more on theReg." There's also a Reuters article about the situation.

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Re:Europeans, mod this up!

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Unlike the reast of you, I will post with my own name and not argue anonymously. First of all, I am a proud United States Citizen who is currently working his way through college.

If you look at the United State's military budget, you would see that it is larger than most(if not all) of the world's military budget combined.

Do you think that Russia, any European country (and I will be nice and not pick on France), China or India could possibly deploy the same volume of troops and equipment in the same time span as the US?

If you are a student of Network Centric Warfare, then you would know that only the US of A has the current capability to land a certain number troops in any spot in the world in under 96 hours.

Should I even mention what country has developed the most advanced weapondry the world has ever seen? Russia may have some great engineers but they lack the capability to actually produce working and reliable weapondry. They have great ideas, but their implementation sucks. The Chinese and Indian's just copy whatever we develop.

Do you really think that Europe would throw in with the Chinese, Russians, and Indian's if Great Britain stayed out of it or even threw in with the US?

I think not!

Not to mention that the Russians and Chinese hate each other completely and the chinese and indian's aren't on the most friendly of terms either!

So... yes, I do believe that in a non-nuclear fight, we would beat Europe, China, Russia, and India.

Obligatory French joke

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Interestingly enough, GSM crypto was designed by French 'military specialists', which has raised the usual (probably justified) suspicions of backdoors.

Not only that, but considering the historical precedent of the French in military conflicts, I'm surprised it puts in any effort what so ever.

Now, had the Germans designed it...