A hacker German reveals the encryption of GSM
by ruidongzq on Jan.01, 2010, under Technology
Karsten Nohl, a German engineer of 28 years, has managed to successfully decrypt the encrypted security code for 80% of calls made from any mobile phone on the planet, this is the GSM network. Nohl said Monday that the aim is to warn of aion kinah in mobile communications. Security experts warn that any criminal organization can intercept calls in minutes to be made public the code.
While the GSM Association, the industry consortium that wrote the encryption, Nohl’s work is illegal and that has endangered the security of the entire mobile communication network. “It is theoretically possible but highly unlikely in practice, what you are doing is illegal both in the United Kingdom and the United States understand and difficult to buy aion kinah so in the interest of safety,” said Claire Cranton GSM Association spokesman.
For his part, as collected by The New York Times Nohl said before this project took all precautions necessary legal emphasizing that the ‘cracking’ of the GSM system was purely for academic purposes and has never tried to intercept a call. “We are not recommending that people who break the law but traders warn that we need better safety measures.
According to Simon Bransfield-Garth, Cellcrypt security chief, a software company based in London, “which Nohl has done is put the sophisticated technology to intercept calls, only in the hands of aion item and intelligence agencies, the scope “any well-funded criminal organization.” “It will reduce the time it takes to intercept a GSM call from weeks to hours and develops further as the code will be a matter of minutes,” said Bransfield-Garth.