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Cell phone encryption deliberately weakened

2021-06-17 22:20:55.0834+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Bombshell Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened

A spokesperson for the organization that designed the GEA-1 algorithm, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), admitted that the algorithm contained a weakness, but said it was introduced because the export regulations at the time did not allow for stronger encryption.

"We followed regulations: we followed export control regulations that limited the strength of GEA-1," a spokesperson for ETSI told Motherboard in an email.

Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2021/819 — Cryptanalysis of the GPRS Encryption Algorithms GEA-1 and GEA-2

[ related topics: broadband Cryptography ]

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