Showing posts with label 3g. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3g. Show all posts

Friday, January 15, 2010

3G GSM encryption cracked in less than two hours


Looks like all that GSM code-cracking is progressing faster than we thought. Soon after the discovery of the 64-bit A5/1 GSM encryption flaw last month, the geniuses at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science went ahead and cracked the KASUMI system -- a 128-bit A5/3 algorithm implemented across 3G networks -- in less than two hours.