Israel

Historical telecommunications security milestones, vulnerabilities, wiretapping incidents, and signaling exploits recorded in Israel.

RECORDS INDEXED1

SPAN2003–2003

AVG SEVERITY9.2 / 10

Intercept Log — Israel

001 RECORDS

2003

Voice

9.2

Real-Time Cryptanalytic Break of GSM A5/2 Export Cipher (Barkan, Biham & Keller)

Elad Barkan, Eli Biham, and Nathan Keller published an instant ciphertext-only attack against the GSM A5/2 cipher, recovering the session key in under 1 second on a standard PC and forcing 3GPP to deprecate the cipher globally.