Side Channel Analysis for Reverse Engineering (SCARE) — An Improved Attack Against a Secret A3/A8 GSM Algorithm
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That’s an interesting find. I’m sorry it took me awhile to respond to you. A3 and A8 GSM algorithms have to do with phone security. GSM is supposed to be the most secured cellular telecommunications system available today. A3 is the user authentication algorithm and A8 is the ciphering key generating algorithm. GSM maintains end-to-end security by retaining the confidentiality of calls and the anonymity of the GSM subscriber.
If the black hats were the subscribers and the white hats figured out how to attack the GSM algorithms, then the WH would have access to the identities of the phone users and their phone comms. Didn’t Q post photos lifted from their phones or am I conflating two events?
If this is accurate, then the [SCARE] event could be referring to the hacking of their phones. I haven’t noodled out why SCARE is in square brackets yet, except maybe to provide some deniability.
Side Channel Analysis for Reverse Engineering (SCARE) — An Improved Attack Against a Secret A3/A8 GSM Algorithm
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That’s an interesting find. I’m sorry it took me awhile to respond to you. A3 and A8 GSM algorithms have to do with phone security. GSM is supposed to be the most secured cellular telecommunications system available today. A3 is the user authentication algorithm and A8 is the ciphering key generating algorithm. GSM maintains end-to-end security by retaining the confidentiality of calls and the anonymity of the GSM subscriber.
If the black hats were the subscribers and the white hats figured out how to attack the GSM algorithms, then the WH would have access to the identities of the phone users and their phone comms. Didn’t Q post photos lifted from their phones or am I conflating two events?
If this is accurate, then the [SCARE] event could be referring to the hacking of their phones. I haven’t noodled out why SCARE is in square brackets yet, except maybe to provide some deniability.
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No need to apologize. I wasn’t even really expecting you to respond. I just put this out there in case the computer/tech/sciency types on this thread might understand what this even meant and could comment upon it. No offense, but I didn’t expect you to be the one to break it apart. I didn’t think you had that technical of a background.
I think I might have put this out there on a thread eons ago and got no takers, but it would have been a few months before your sign up date on FR.