Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Forum Report on Security

[Ian Wraith]

Hello

>Page 30 and 31 (PDF 37 and 38) discuss GSM security, without bothering
>to mention that they kept their snake oil algorithm secret for years
>so that consumers would not find out how insecure it was.  It bleats
>that the "Security Group has realized two important initiatives over
>the past 12 months": introducing AS/3 to replace the faulty algorithms,
>and a protocol for "authenticated key agreement", AKA.  Until I hear
>differently, I'll assume that these are both more proprietary snake oil.

 A5/3 will be the first "open" GSM (& 3G) encryption alogorithm. 
Have a look at ..

http://www.etsi.org/frameset/home.htm?/pressroom/previous/2002/3algorithm.htm

Regards

Ian