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- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!qualcom.qualcomm.com!servo.qualcomm.com!karn
- From: karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
- Subject: Re: Encrypted phones, keys, taps, ...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov3.081844.15185@qualcomm.com>
- Sender: news@qualcomm.com
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- Organization: Qualcomm, Inc
- References: <7742@transfer.stratus.com> <oTyHTB3w164w@k5qwb.lonestar.org> <gilchr.720707142@ee.ualberta.ca>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 08:18:44 GMT
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- In article <gilchr.720707142@ee.ualberta.ca> gilchr@ee.ualberta.ca (Andrew Gilchrist) writes:
- >If digital cellular ever gets off the ground, real-time data encryption
- >via computer algorithms would become feasable. 'Til then, scrambling
- >will be the way to go.
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- It may be feasable, but you'll have to do it yourself on an end-to-end
- basis -- thanks to the NSA, the current digital cellular standards
- provide "privacy" in name only. Nor is this likely to change.
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- Phil
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