retroremakes
January 15th, 2010, 14:40
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/500x_run.jpgJust weeks ago, GSM encryption was cracked (http://gizmodo.com/5435677/the-algorithm-protecting-gsm-calls-has-been-cracked), but everyone was all like, "No big deal, GSM is old." Now the encryption protecting 128-bit UMTS 3G has been cracked as well.
It's not a practical hack yet, with real time monitoring of 3G calls and data fairly impossible since it takes a computer about 2 hours to decode the encryption. But researchers have admitted that their technique is far from optimized, meaning the process can only get faster.
I dunno about you, but security breaches like this are precisely why I only have phone sex in person. [Cryptology ePrint (http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/013) via ars technica (http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/01/another-gsm-encryption-technique-falls-to-researchers.ars) via phoneArena (http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Encryption-used-in-3G-networks-has-been-broken-article-a_8865.html) via gsmArena (http://www.gsmarena.com/that_didnt_take_long__encryption_used_in_3g_networ ks_broken_too-news-1379.php)]
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It's not a practical hack yet, with real time monitoring of 3G calls and data fairly impossible since it takes a computer about 2 hours to decode the encryption. But researchers have admitted that their technique is far from optimized, meaning the process can only get faster.
I dunno about you, but security breaches like this are precisely why I only have phone sex in person. [Cryptology ePrint (http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/013) via ars technica (http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/01/another-gsm-encryption-technique-falls-to-researchers.ars) via phoneArena (http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Encryption-used-in-3G-networks-has-been-broken-article-a_8865.html) via gsmArena (http://www.gsmarena.com/that_didnt_take_long__encryption_used_in_3g_networ ks_broken_too-news-1379.php)]
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