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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:17
Peter Gutmann (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz)
Fri, 6 Nov 1998 03:15:17 (NZDT)
Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> writes:
>The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) have granted
>access to allow everyone, not just members, to their specifications. These
>include the GSM specs.
There are about 120 security-related documents there, including several
covering the ETSI's ideas on GAK and police surveillance (the security ones
beginning with ES and EN tend to fall into this area). Reading through the
ones which touch on crypto algorithms one can't help thinking that if they
spent a fraction of the effort on designing their snake oil that they do in
making sure none of it is ever accidentally exposed to the slightest risk of
third-party review, we'd have a pretty secure phone system - most of their
"security procedures" seem to fall into the area of "how to make sure noone
ever sees how bad it really is".
BTW you need an ID code to download them, cypherpunks can use the standard
cypherpunks ID with '001' appended.
Peter.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:17