AW: Israeli boffins crack GSM code

[vogt () hansenet com]

> It was in the media over here in Germany some days ago. It seems to be a 
> fundamental flaw in the GSM design. AFIK, the attacker pretends to be a
GSM 
> base station and can receive the call via a cell handover. 

If I got that correctly, then the problem is that the cell phone
authenticates itself to the base station, but the base station doesn't
authenticate itself. In other words: The old problem of implicit trust.


Tom Vogt

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