SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in news:47be0f7e$0$36330
$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:

> Uh oh. Don't be doing any telephone banking or credit card ordering on
> your GSM phone.
>
> "A pair of researchers has created a low-cost and simple hack to crack
> the encryption in GSM mobile phones and intercept voice conversations
> and SMS text messages -- within minutes."
>
> http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=146616
>

Anything the cops can listen to....is insecure by design.

That's why there's Skype....(c;

2.3 Session Cryptography
All traffic in a session is encrypted by XORing the plaintext with key
stream generated by 256-bit AES (also known as Rijndael) running in integer
counter mode (ICM). The key used is SKAB. Skype sessions contain multiple
streams. The ICM counter depends on the stream, on salt, and the sequency
within the stream