Further enhancing the 6113 base station tester for GSM base stations, the company's latest option offers A5/3 encryption capabilities. Support for the latest A5/3 GSM encryption algorithm complements ...

An encryption algorithm designed to protect calls on GSM phones has been broken by three cryptographers using only a dual-core, Intel -based Dell Latitude PC running Linux. In a paper released Tuesday ...

The (Global System for Mobile Communications) technology used by the majority of the world's mobile phones will get some scrutiny at next week's Black Hat security conference, and what the security ...

It has been long argued that the A5/1 encryption standard used to secure GSM traffic from eavesdropping is, in fact, insecure, and California based security firm H4RDW4RE is pioneering an effort to ...

Kevin J. O’Brien divulges the news: A German computer engineer … has deciphered and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the world’s … mobile phone calls. … Karsten Nohl, aimed to ...

This post is somewhat related to my Wells Fargo thread in the lounge. It got me wondering exactly what depth of encryption is used on cell-streams. To quote a friend who works for VZW, "We use a 26 ...