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- From: pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
- Subject: Re: Encrypted phones, keys, taps, ...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.181433.12025@shearson.com>
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- References: <1992Nov7.045122.15675@netcom.com> <1992Nov7.150423.26670@nwnexus.WA.COM> <gilchr.721309568@ee.ualberta.ca>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:14:33 GMT
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- gilchr@ee.ualberta.ca (Andrew Gilchrist) writes:
- >While I don't argue that such a sampling/compression/encryption/
- >transmission/decryption/decompression/reconstruction could be done virtually
- >in real time on a typical phone line with a lot of funding, I will need
- >some math and some specifications for devices capable of carrying this out
- >reliably on an analog cellular network before I am convinced.
-
- As I've said, you can buy the equipment from AT&T today. Really. No
- joke. No need for you to contemplate "a lot of funding" -- you can
- just go out and buy the equipment any time you like. AT&T is the only
- vendor I know of that packages this all with a cellular transmitter,
- but you can buy similar phones from Cylink, Motorola and other
- vendors. And this is just the list of DOMESTIC manufacturers of such
- things -- doubtless there are folks outside the country that make
- them, too.
-
- Its all really easy. CELP compression can be done with cheap DSPs --
- you can buy the code if you don't feel like writing it yourself. The
- encryption can be done an order of magnitude faster than you need even
- on conventional processors. V.32bis modem modules are a dime a dozen.
- You don't need to be AT&T to do this -- any talented EE with a few
- weeks of work could put a system to do this together.
-
- >I don't have
- >bandwidth specs or s/n values for cellular transmissions, so I can't do this
- >for myself.
-
- Analog cellular phones handle the standard 300-3000Hz phone band
- perfectly well. V.32bis modems operate just fine on them.
-
- Perry
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- Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
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