{"id":134843,"date":"2025-08-09T11:18:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/encryption-made-for-police-and-military-radios-may-be-easily-cracked\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T11:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:18:47","slug":"encryption-made-for-police-and-military-radios-may-be-easily-cracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/encryption-made-for-police-and-military-radios-may-be-easily-cracked\/","title":{"rendered":"Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/tetra-radio-encryption-backdoor\/\">discovered an intentional backdoor<\/a> in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure\u2013as well as police, intelligence agencies, and military forces around the world\u2013that made any communication secured with the algorithm vulnerable to eavesdropping.<\/p>\n<p>When the researchers publicly disclosed the issue in 2023, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), which developed the algorithm, advised anyone using it for sensitive communication to deploy an end-to-end encryption solution on top of the flawed algorithm to bolster the security of their communications.<\/p>\n<p>But now the same researchers have found that at least one implementation of the end-to-end encryption solution endorsed by ETSI has a similar issue that makes it equally vulnerable to eavesdropping. The encryption algorithm used for the device they examined starts with a 128-bit key, but this gets compressed to 56 bits before it encrypts traffic, making it easier to crack. It\u2019s not clear who is using this implementation of the end-to-end encryption algorithm, nor if anyone using devices with the end-to-end encryption is aware of the security vulnerability in them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/08\/encryption-made-for-police-and-military-radios-may-be-easily-cracked\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/08\/encryption-made-for-police-and-military-radios-may-be-easily-cracked\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure\u2013as well as police, intelligence agencies, and military forces around the world\u2013that made any communication secured with the algorithm vulnerable to eavesdropping. 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