80% of Cell Phone Encryption Solutions Insecure 158
An anonymous reader writes "Mobile Magazine writes about a blogger named Notrax who has tested 15 methods of secure encryption for mobile phones; out of those he found only 3 could not be cracked at some level. '12 of them were "worthless." It's easy to take the software at face value when it "tells you" that the call is secured. But how does someone actually go about being sure that it is secured? Notrax did some digging and discovered he could break in to almost all of them in under 30 minutes.'" (Above link is to a slightly older description of Notrax's approach; then, it was 9 out of 10 products that were worthless, instead of 12 out of 15.)
yeah, i can hear you now. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:yeah, i can hear you now. (Score:1, Funny)
WHAT? SPEAK UP!
The solution (Score:2, Funny)
I speak in code (Score:4, Funny)
It's so efficient, not even my recipient can make out what I mean.
The Missile from France went down my pants, so I need you to dance and prance
"Are you breaking up with me?"
Sure, if you install the spy software. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The solution (Score:4, Funny)
V fcrnx va ebg 13. Gbgny frphevgl.
My mother's a frphevgl, you insensitive khdfsji!
Re:What's that? (Score:5, Funny)
Honest men can be found everywhere.
Honest politicians? SETI is still working on that one.
Re:Nothing to see here, move along (Score:1, Funny)
That's the stupidest thing I've heard in a while.
Now that my antivirus found a trojan, it's no longer a trojan?
Re:Just 80%? (Score:3, Funny)
It would take more energy to break a current day 256bit symmetric key than there is usable energy in our galaxy. A near perfect 256bit would require you breaking down all of the stars in the universe into pure energy to break one key. Have fun.
but yes, human factor. ignore the key all together.
Re:Backdoors != news (Score:4, Funny)