Re: .. and these days ??

Article View: sci.crypt

Article #1229

#1229

From: Kenneth Roar Iversen
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 14:02

24 lines
1540 bytes

In article <1992Oct14.134120.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> elahde@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi writes:
>In article <54546@dime.cs.umass.edu>, shri@freal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar) writes:
>>   with so much hue and cry being raised today over privacy issues
>> in public telecom, and tapping of cellular phones .. I wonder
>> if some group is looking into adaptation of any digital encryption
>> schemes, esp. two key schemes for cellular phone use, esp the
>> newer digital cellular phone standards. 
>
>The GSM system that is already in small commercial use in Europe uses
>digital encryption. GSM is a digital cellular system that will cover
>the whole Europe in a few years. GSM systems from Nokia Telecommunications
>are in commercial use at least in England and Finland.
>
>Eero

As far as I know the encryption is applied on the radio-jump (is that what
it is called in English?). The data is thus in clear on the physical cable
from the receiver-station and in the switches.

Kenneth

that is Kenneth R. Iversen
        KITH
        Norway

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1992Oct14.140213.23704@ugle.unit.no>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!aun.uninett.no!ugle.unit.no!kennethr

References: <54546@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1992Oct14.134120.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!aun.uninett.no!ugle.unit.no!kennethr
From: kennethr@idt.unit.no (Kenneth Roar Iversen)
Subject: Re: .. and these days ??
Message-ID: <1992Oct14.140213.23704@ugle.unit.no>
Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
Organization: Div. of CS & Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology
References: <54546@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1992Oct14.134120.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 14:02:13 GMT
Lines: 24

Reply to Parent Message