TETRA BURST Security Vulnerability

TETRA BURST is a terrestrial trunked radio standard for radio communications from TETRA BURST. A security vulnerability exists in TETRA that stems from a lack of ciphertext authentication on the AIE, leading to a malleability attack...

TETRA BURST Security Vulnerability

TETRA BURST is a terrestrial trunked radio standard for radio communications from TETRA BURST. A security vulnerability exists in TETRA BURST that stems from the Air Interface Encryption AIE keystream generator's dependence on network time, which can be publicly broadcast in an unauthenticated...

TETRA BURST Security Vulnerability

TETRA BURST is a terrestrial trunked radio standard for radio communications from TETRA BURST. TETRA suffers from a security vulnerability that stems from a backdoor in the TEA1 algorithm that reduces the original 80-bit key to one that can be easily brute-force deciphered on consumer hardware in...

Backdoor in TETRA Police Radios

Seems that there is a deliberate backdoor in the twenty-year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio TETRA standard used by police forces around the world. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute ETSI, an organization that standardizes technologies across the industry, first created TETRA in...