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by 3pt14159 6013 days ago
How is this news? I've known for months that a 100+ petabyte server and a massive rainbow table can crack the encryption of GSM phones.
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They are down to ~2TB for rainbow tables, calculated on GPUs, making cracking feasible. Also, the code and knowledge is put into the public: http://reflextor.com/trac/a51/wiki