2/28/2011 GSM

The Anatomy Of GSM Encryption Hack

After Karsten Nohl hacked the GSM encryption, I thought to Digg this a bit in more detail. So i have written this whole guide in favor of it. So lets start.

Karsten Nohl, A Germen Hacker have claimed that he have successfully cracked the GSM mobiles security algorithm. That we all know but the question that arises here is what he did to crack the GSM encryption which have been for years, actually from 1987.

There was a conference know as 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3) , as we all know which is indeed the most respected and one of the most seeable conferences in Europe.



It takes place from December 27th to December 30th 2009 at the bcc Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany. which is quite recent and what was special this time on it was the GSM encryption crack details which were going to be demoed in the conference.

The 26C3s slogan is "Here Be Dragons".

As a matter of fact i was not there in the conference and thus missed all the stuff going on there. but some of my twitter friends helped me out with this. When twitters started to tweet with the hash tag of #26C3 all was going clear about it...