On Fri, 5 May 2000 08:58:45 -0400 "Arnold G. Reinhold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It's worse than that. The new reports are to cover "law enforcement
> encounters with encrypted communications in the execution of wiretap
> orders." http://www.politechbot.com/docs/clinton-crypto.050300.html
> "Encounters" suggests that there will be no distinction between
> encryption that hinders law enforcement access and encryption that
> does not. For example, any tap of a GSM cell phone could be reported
> even though the cipher GSM uses is relatively easy to break. In 1999
> there were 676 authorized taps for cell phones and pagers vs. 399 for
> stationary phones. (1998: 576 vs 494, so the trend is toward cell
> phones)
Any tap on the GSM cell phone will _not_ be on the encrypted over-the-air
interface but simply on the plaintext leaving the base station on the fixed
network.
Jaap-Henk
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