Open Source Attempt To Crack GSM Encryption

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 5, 2009 @08:24AM from the phone-you-break-could-be-your-own dept.

Lexta writes with an interesting tidbit from IEEE Spectrum: "'Karsten Nohl, chief research scientist with H4RDW4RE, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based security research firm, is mounting what could be the most ambitious attempt yet to compromise the GSM phone system.' The intended approach is to create an open source project to spread the computation of a giant look-up table across more than 80 machines. Interestingly, they've openly stated that nVidia's CUDA technology will be used to execute parallel elements of the problem on GPUs as well."

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Not in California by Anonymous Coward · 2009-12-05 08:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In other news today, four people were arrested in Sunnyvale for a half dozen felonies. The men, all apparently clueless foreign nationals with gender neutral names said they are innocent and intend to fight their charges to the Supreme Court as soon as their parents wire them the Euros to post bail.