Satellite communication encryption cracked by scientists

Researchers at a university in Bochum, Germany claim to have cracked encryption algorithms of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that are used to secure certain civilian satellite phone communications. The Ruhr University Bochum’s (RUB) Horst Görtz Institute for IT security today issued an announcement detailing how researchers there have…

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Satellite phone encryption cracked by German researchers

German researchers claim they have found weaknesses in two commonly-used satellite encryption protocols that could render them vulnerable to eavesdropping in real time. In the paper titled Don’t Trust Satellite Phones (currently available only as an abstract), Benedikt Driessen and Ralf Hund of Ruhr University describe how they reverse engineered…

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