A German cryptographer and computer engineer has claimed to have decrypted and published the code employed to protect world’s GSM phone calls from unauthorised snooping.
Karsten Nohl, 28, has deciphered the 21-year-old GSM algorithm, which is being used to safeguard 80 percent of the GSM calls across the globe, the New York Times reported.
Proclaiming his success at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, Nohl asserted that he cracked the apparently reliable protection mechanism to expose the weaknesses and loopholes of the system.
More: http://www.itproportal.com/security/news/article/2009/12/29/german-hacker-cracks-gsm-encryption-code/
Karsten Nohl, 28, has deciphered the 21-year-old GSM algorithm, which is being used to safeguard 80 percent of the GSM calls across the globe, the New York Times reported.
Proclaiming his success at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, Nohl asserted that he cracked the apparently reliable protection mechanism to expose the weaknesses and loopholes of the system.
More: http://www.itproportal.com/security/news/article/2009/12/29/german-hacker-cracks-gsm-encryption-code/