GPRS-era mobile data encryption algorithm GEA/1 was 'weak by design', still lingers in today's phones

Thursday June 17, 2021. 03:44 AM , from TheRegister

Just in case you travel back in time to 1998
The GEA/1 encryption algorithm used by GPRS phones in the 1990s was seemingly designed to be weaker than it appears to allow eavesdropping, according to European researchers.…

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