Specialists from the Ruhr University managed to crack the encryption system satellite telephone

Yes, “And there will be a hole on the old woman,” this popular saying says correctly (or the proverb, never understood the difference between them). Information security specialists from the University of Bochum (Ruhr University) have recently announced the successful hacking of the standard for encrypting satellite communications used to negotiate satellite phones. At the same time, researchers did not need exotic means of communication and many thousands of dollars. Enough of any PC and a conventional radio.

In the presence of specialized software, such a system is enough to listen to telephone conversations of nearby subscribers using satellite telephone communication without any problems. According to experts, all this makes satellite phones around the world vulnerable, subject to the use of encryption standards GMR-1 and GMR-2. The experts were able to carry out the so-called reverse engineering of the specified communication standards.
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The satellite encryption standards mentioned are used by most satellite telephone service providers, including such a large company as Thuraya. Work with GMR-1 and GMR-2 and military communications, which also automatically become unstable to cracking. ETSI is engaged in standardization of encryption algorithms for satellite communications, and it was to this organization that the Germans appealed first of all, hoping that the ETSI developers would create more reliable encryption standards.

German experts draw an analogy between cellular communication and satellite communication, drawing attention to the fact that mobile operators are already engaged in introducing more reliable encryption tools into their networks, while satellite operators are not doing anything. Or, if they do, then it all goes quite slowly - and yet hackers of various suits do not sleep.

Via theinquirer