The researcher who discovered that the UK government’s phone encryption standard has a huge backdoor installed has made another discovery: GCHQ’s rejection of a better encryption standard because it didn’t allow for undetectable spying. Dr Steven Murdoch has updated his original post on the MIKEY-SAKKE standard, developed by UK listening post GCHQ, to include a document from the 3GPP standardization group that was responsible for the 3G mobile phone standard and which also developed the 4G and LTE standards (i.e., what your phone currently uses).
View full story
ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register
