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X-Force claims 5 years old COMP128 crack?
From: "yossarian" <yossarian () planet nl>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 02:07:00 +0100
In HNS news I saw a link to a new GSM hack. Being interested in this topic, if followed it, and thru net-security.org came on the VNUNet.com site. The story says how researchers from the X-Force broke COMP128 and A5/1 and 2. And I quote: "The most commonly used encryption algorithm to authenticate users on a GSM network is known as COMP128, which was broken by David Wagner and Ian Goldberg in less than a day." Hey, I thought, this ain't new. So I checked. In 1998 Ian Goldberg (ISAAC research group) and Marc Briceno published a lengthy and detailed paper on this same topic. If they new, they should have given credit, IMHO. Well, either they did not verify if this was a new job - which it isn't, or there story was messed up by some reporter. It isn't on the X-Force site, so I couldn't find out who messed up, but it sure ain't prutty. Yossarian _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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