Re: TETRA encryption

From: Andrew Swallow (am.swallow_at_eatspam.btinternet.com)
Date: 05/07/03 

Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 00:28:03 +0000 (UTC)

"Jim Watt" <jimwatt@aol.no.way> wrote in message
news:blpfbvsbralc1r8m2ltd77s60u1ienfdun@4ax.com...
[snip]
>
> I believe the British Army considered that the IRA could monitor their
> secure radios, and used a code system on top of the encryption
> to ensure that paddy didn't know what they were about.
>

Were the radios used in Northern Island, by the privates,
encrypted? I suspect that they were analogue plain text.

> However, I suspect a lot of the interception is limited to hollywood
> imagination and the average criminal hasn't much of a clue and is
> probably a brain dead druggie looking for some quick cash.
>
Radios able to listen to British Police frequencies
could be purchased from any good electrical shop.
However, it is not worth while monitoring the police
when committing any crime that takes less than 10
minutes.

Andrew Swallow

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