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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 05:15:03 -0500
- From: shri%legato@cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Sorry For My Slip Up in Cellular Privacy
- Message-ID: <telecom12.842.11@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 842, Message 11 of 14
- Lines: 23
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- Hi PAT,
-
- I seem to have implied and said a statement more stronger than my
- thoughts about encryption for cellular phones in my post, as I
- realised when I got this mail from brumba@rtsg.mot.com ...
-
- > I think that you jumped in over your head on this one -- there is
- > encryption available for cellular phones. The biggest drawback is
- > cost.
-
- That is true ... I do know that about existance of the encryption
- scheme that is included in the IS-54B standard which I have heard
- governs cellular phones. And if no one else flames me on my mistake,
- please include this in the digest to correct my error. My apologies.
-
- However, my sentiment was directed at the fact that this encryption
- is not "known for any strength" ... and what amount of security it
- will provide is yet to be seen to be believed.
-
-
- shrikumar (shri@legato.cs.umass.edu, shri@iucaa.ernet.in)
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