13:51 Crack cryptographic gsm now be for a thousand dollars | |
| At the Black Hat conference was shown a new method of cracking encryption GSM, which is characterized by simplicity and cheapness. Requires equipment costing only $ 1000 and about half the time to decode the signal and the selection keys. Thanks to the work of two young specialists David Halton and Steve Mueller soon remote wiretapping GSM-phone will be available not only for intelligence, but also for every citizen. The inventors have used long-known vulnerability in the standard protocol. According to Mueller, the protection of GSM has been broken in 1998 when they were published theoretical papers on this topic. They are easy to implement in practice "exploit". In March of this year, Hulton and Muller are planning to launch a quick version of his spy system that would break the protection in just 30 seconds. True, such a system will cost at least $ 200 thousand Hulton and Muller has defended the design patent. For comparison, currently special services for the passive interception use the equipment cost about a million dollars: this is "chislodrobilki" which picked up the keys by brute force. For an active capturing used mobile bogus base stations, but they work only at close range and easily vulnerable to detection. If there is no special equipment, in Russia the wiretapping done directly through the switches, cellular operators, since all domestic telecom operators willing to go towards these issues. A new method of hacking should be a signal for cellular operators, who for years refused to pay attention to the fundamental vulnerability of the protocol GSM, said cryptography guru Bruce Schneier. "This is a new work, but it is not surprising - he says - We have many years of talking about the weakness of the algorithm. Representatives of the telecommunications industry responded, saying it is only in theory. Well, now it is in practice. " | |
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