Comments on: Another Week, Another GSM Cipher Bites the Dust

By: Blue Pulsating Muck

Blue Pulsating Muck — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:48:08 +0000

Now posted: http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/013.pdf [Sorry, I deleted this comment by accident. Adam]

By: Magnus Falk

Magnus Falk — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:27:18 +0000

At least they seemed to have learned something when it comes to LTE (or 4G that people have started calling it). There the standard mandates AES, but you can also use something called SNOW3G that I’m not sure what it is.
/Working on LTE at Ericsson

By: Nicko

Nicko — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:46:09 +0000

“This is less acute than either of those.”
Well, it is at least until we discover which cell phone manufacturers are also using “simplified” random number generators!