alt Hacker NewsTo be fair, the EU governments led the way to an unencrypted future with TETRA and the broken TEA1 encryption scheme. They're just giving back freedom and openness to the people now. /s
To be fair, the EU governments led the way to an unencrypted future with TETRA and the broken TEA1 encryption scheme. They're just giving back freedom and openness to the people now. /s
Weakening of encryption standards is much older than that.
Weakening of the DES encryption by US goverment in 1970s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard
The GSM encryption from 1990s
"Security researcher Ross Anderson reported in 1994 that "there was a terrific row between the NATO signal intelligence agencies in the mid-1980s over whether GSM encryption should be strong or not. The Germans said it should be, as they shared a long border with the Warsaw Pact; but the other countries didn't feel this way, and the algorithm as now fielded is a French design."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/1