On 7/9/07, alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Makes me wonder how this will effect the OpenMoko phone if someone builds an encryption layer for it. (OpenMoko is a totally open sourced phone.)
Leigh Honeywell and Paul Wouters presented a 'crypto-phone' effort they have been working on at CCC in Germany last December. They later presented an update at a meeting in Toronto: http://www.task.to/events/presentations/securephone-task.pdf They are building on OpenMoko and the Neo1973 phone (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973), because it is the only phone they could find that allows OS modifications without breaking code signing. As I understand it, it's not true end-to-end. It makes a 'VPN' connection to an Asterisk PBX that you have configured somewhere in the world, presumably on a phone network trusted more than the wireless one you are currently on. If the PBX has to route the call back into public infrastructure to the other endpoint, then there is cleartext exposure again. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]