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- 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
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- 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
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