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From: mse@Phobos.Caltech.EDU (Martin Ewing)
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Subject: Cellular authentication
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Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 13:02:37 EDT
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I am interested in the recent discussion of cellular protocols.

Does anyone know/care to comment on how mobile units convince the Cellular
Offices (COs?) they are who they claim to be?  The 4-digit "PIN" is fine,
but what is to keep me from snooping around for a convenient mobile's ID and
using the same numbers for my own call? 

This seems like a good application for public-key encryption, but I doubt
that the world has made so much progress yet.

Martin Ewing                 mse%deimos@Deimos.Caltech.Edu 
Caltech Radio Astronomy      mse@CITPHOBO.bitnet