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- From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: VTECH's encrypting wireless phone
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 06:13:51 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
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- I looked at Motorola's encrypting wireless phone at the store -- heard
- what "encrypted" voice sounds like -- and could recognize the voice,
- so it's not nearly secure enough. I haven't seen, but have a brochure
- for, VTECH's encrypting wireless phone -- with digital transmission
- between handset and base. So I called them up and asked what they use
- for encryption. They refused to tell me....wouldn't even tell me the number
- of bits of key for the algorithm.
-
- Does anyone out there know details of VTECH's encryption? At the
- price they're asking ($350), they can afford to do at least 1 round of
- DES-CBC, but I'm sure they don't. If they did, they would have told
- me.
-
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- -- <<Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own, of course.>>
- -- Carl Ellison cme@sw.stratus.com
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