At 03:02 AM 09/28/2002 +1000, Greg Rose wrote: >At 01:16 PM 9/27/2002 +0200, Ralf-P. Weinmann wrote: >>Is A5/3 deployed yet? > >Kasumi (in the form of "f8" (ciphering) and "f9" (integrity) is >beginning to be deployed in UMTS (WidebandCDMA) mobiles as we speak. >But an exact specification of how to use Kasumi as A5/3 has only >just been agreed; it will be 6-12 months (at least) before any >significant amount of equipment, either fixed or mobile, >will be produced and deployed, and it will be a couple more years >after that before there will be significant probability that a >call is encrypted using A5/3.
That might make this a good time to attack the 64-bit version, at least if there's been enough cryptanalysis done for the attack to be realistic. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
