GSM Goes Nekkid

December 28, 2009

So… looks like Karsten Nohl went through with one of the most pervasive open source experiments in IT history. The GSM A5/1 encryption algorithm is now cracked, code books have been generated, real-time decryption and snooping is now a distinct possibility using off-the-shelf hardware (ATI/Nvidia/IBM-Tosh PS3 Cell Procesors/USRP2)  and open source software (Asterisk, OpenBTS).
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