| Lloyd, C. "Spymasters Order Redesign of `Too Secure' Mobile Phones", The Sunday Times, 31 January 1993, p.12. |
....the talk was cancelled at the last minute by GCHQ. A chip to break A5 is currently being designed for an MSc thesis [Anderson 1994c] However, even A5 was regarded as being too strong for export outside Europe. The result was a watered down version called A5X, which was even easier to break [Lloyd 1993]. Countries like Australia, which managed to obtain cellphones employing A5 encryption, had to carry out multimillion dollar retrofits to communcations equipment to allow government monitoring of cellphone conversations [Lagan and Davies 1993] the high cost of converting existing cellular phone ....
Lloyd, C. "Spymasters Order Redesign of `Too Secure' Mobile Phones", The Sunday Times, 31 January 1993, p.12.
Online articles have much greater impact More about CiteSeer.IST Add search form to your site Submit documents Feedback
CiteSeer.IST - Copyright Penn State and NEC