Re: TETRA encryption

From: Jim Watt (jimwatt_at_aol.no.way)
Date: 05/07/03 

Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 10:10:10 +0200

On Wed, 7 May 2003 00:28:03 +0000 (UTC), "Andrew Swallow"
<am.swallow@eatspam.btinternet.com> wrote:

>Radios able to listen to British Police frequencies
>could be purchased from any good electrical shop.

Not with encryption - which is what I was talking about.

Nor is possession of the actual hardware sufficient to listen to
the traffic. In the same way that the Germans assumed that
enigma machines would be captured, the strength of these
systems depends on the encryption and radios that are
compromised can be disabled over the air. 

--
Jim Watt          http://www.gibnet.com

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