From: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
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Raw Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:10:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:10:47 -0800 (PST)
To: dccp@eff.org
Subject: P.S. David Kahn's editorial today
Message-ID: <199701230510.VAA04818@toad.com>
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I just sent the following P.S. to newsday.com
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There is another reason to have cellular phones which encrypt only the
over-the-air portion of a call, besides the fact that we can leave normal
wiretap access procedures in place and not surrender civilian crypto keys to
the government.
If I have a cellular phone which encrypts over the air (between the phone
and the base station) and I call you, while you have a normal wired phone,
our call is protected by cryptography from interception off the air.
If I use an AT&T Clipper-style cellular phone, as David suggested, and I
call you on a normal wired phone, we can't encrypt the conversation and it
is vulnerable to interception. The protection works *only* if both parties
have encrypting phones while interoperate.
- Carl
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+-Officer, officer, arrest that man. He's whistling a dirty song.--+
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