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Highly Secure Mobile Phones

(Updated: Apr 9, 2016)

In the previous post nosotros saw that ordinary mobile phones offering solely express protection against eavesdropping. Therefore, exceptional devices are designed to move along conversations safe. Here nosotros volition listing a make of mobile phones, which offering a high flat of safety together with are thus suited for elevation flat telecommunications.

The next information is gathered from the internet, solely to supply a full general overview. For to a greater extent than information, provided yesteryear the manufacturer, delight click the xanthous subdivision championship or the fact sheet.



- for authorities together with armed services purpose -


General Dynamics: Sectéra Wireless GSM Phone
- Produced from 2002-2012 yesteryear the American companionship General Dynamics Corp.
- For GSM together with GPRS networks.
- Ordinary Motorola Timeport GSM phone, amongst a exceptional Security Module attached at the dorsum side of the phone, replacing the battery cover.
- Approved yesteryear the NSA for conversations upward to the flat of TOP SECRET * together with yesteryear NATO for upward to COSMIC TOP SECRET. This telephone is also used yesteryear the British authorities for mobile communications upward to the flat of SECRET.*
- Encryption amongst US Type 1 together with approved Suite B (including AES together with ECDH) encryption algorithms.
- There are slightly modified modules for the UK, Canada, Commonwealth of Australia together with New Zealand. There's also a version, using the AES algorithm only, which is exportable to other countries.
- The cost of this telephone is 2.095,- US dollar.
- More details inwards the factsheet (pdf)

> As of 2013, General Dynamics replaces this telephone yesteryear GD Protected, a platform for securing high-end Samsung together with LG smartphones.



Sectra: Tiger XS
- Produced since 2005 yesteryear the Swedish companionship Sectra AB.
- For GSM together with UMTS networks.
- This is a personal encryption device, which is connected inwards betwixt a headset together with an ordinary mobile telephone (via Bluetooth). Voice information are encrypted yesteryear the device, earlier going into the non-secure telephone.
- Two element user authentication amongst SIM-sized access bill of fare together with PIN code.
- Approved inwards the Netherlands, yesteryear the European Commission together with yesteryear NATO for conversations upward to the flat of SECRET. In 2011, the Tiger XS was used inwards 17 European countries.
- Since 2007, a sligthly modified version of this device is used yesteryear Dutch cabinet ministers together with high-level officals of authorities departments together with the Dutch armed forces.*
- More details inwards the factsheet (pdf)




Sectra: Tiger 7401
- Produced since 2012 yesteryear the Swedish companionship Sectra.
- For GSM, GPRS, EDGE together with UMTS networks.
- Custom made mobile telephone amongst TEMPEST verified blueprint together with tamper response, providing Red together with Black interfaces for secure together with non-secure connections.
- Two element user authentication amongst SIM-sized access bill of fare together with PIN code.
- Approved inwards *
- More details inwards the factsheet (pdf)



Rohde & Schwarz: TopSec Mobile
- Produced since 2008 yesteryear the High German companionship Rohde & Schwarz GmbH.
- For GSM together with UMTS networks.
- This is a divide encryption device, which is connected inwards betwixt a headset together with a smart telephone (both iPhone together with Android) amongst Bluetooth connection. Voice information are encrypted yesteryear the device, earlier going into the non-secure telephone.
- Approved inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for conversations upward to the flat of RESTRICTED (Verschlusssache/Nur für den Dienstgebrauch).
- The device secures the fundamental telephone commutation amongst a 384-bit fundamental ECC algorithm together with encrypts the phonation information amongst AES, using a 256-bit key.
- More details inwards the factsheet (pdf)



Secusmart: SecuVOICE
- Produced since 2008 yesteryear the High German companionship Secusmart GmbH.
- For GSM together with UMTS networks. There are divide solutions for voice, SMS together with email communications.
- Common high-end Nokia phones are secured yesteryear a tamper proof chip on the format of a microSD Card, which is inserted inwards the retentiveness bill of fare slot of the phone.
- Approved yesteryear German, Dutch together with NATO agencies for conversations upward to the flat of RESTRICTED.
- Communications are secured yesteryear 128-bit AES encryption together with keys are exchanged using the Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman (ECDH) protocol.
- This solution was implemented for securing phonation communications of the High German federal authorities inwards 2009, including those through the Nokia 6260 Slide telephone of chancellor Angela Merkel.
- More details inwards the Secusmart overview (pdf)

> Secusmart provided a similar safety solution for the BlackBerry 10 smartphones, which became available for High German authorities officials inwards 2013. See: How secure is the Merkel-Phone?



Thales: Teorem
- Produced since 2008 yesteryear the French companionship Thales Group SA.
- For GSM, GPRS, EDGE together with UMTS networks.
- Custom made handset, amongst a instant display, showing whether the telephone proper substantive upward is secure or not.
- Approved inwards French Republic for conversations upward to the flat of SECRET (Secret Défense).
- In 2010, the French authorities ordered over 14.000 of these phones, to last used yesteryear the president, ministers together with high officials of the armed forces together with the diverse ministries that bargain amongst classified defence information.Bridge Systems Ltd.
- More details inwards the factsheet (pdf)



- for authorities together with commercial purpose -


Omnisec: Secure Mobile Phone Omnisec 230
- Produced yesteryear the Swiss companionship Omnisec AG.
- For GSM, EDGE together with UMTS networks.
- Common HTC smart telephone amongst hardened Android operating system. The encryption engines are stored on a unmarried chip, which is inserted into the telephone similar a SIM-card.
- Encryption amongst Omnisec proprietary algorithms using 256-bit keys.
- The cost of this telephone is said to last closed to 25.000,- Swiss franks (although 2500,- franks seems te last to a greater extent than realistic).
- More details inwards the factsheet (pdf)

> For a demonstration, see: Swiss video on mobile telephone security



Crypto AG: Crypto Mobile HA-2400
- Produced yesteryear the Swiss theatre Crypto AG.
- For EDGE together with UMTS networks.
- Common high-end Nokia smart telephone from the E-series, amongst Symbian operating system. The crypto capabilities are provided yesteryear a unmarried tamper proof chip (the Crypto Mobile HC-9100) on the format of a microSD Card, which is inserted inwards the retentiveness bill of fare slot of the phone.
- Encryption amongst a client specific cipher algorithm HCA-820, using 128 or 256-bit keys.



Tripleton: Enigma E2
- Produced since 2012 yesteryear the British companionship IntSec Ltd.
- For GSM together with GPRS networks.
- The telephone uses the Enigma encryption scheme developed yesteryear the T-Systems/T-TeleSec segmentation of Deutsche Telekom. This was next a asking from one-time High German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, later he was hacked inwards the 1990s.*
- Encryption amongst AES, using a 256-bit key, which is exchanged via 1024-bit RSA.
- The cost of this telephone is 1.320,- pound sterling.



GSMK: CryptoPhone 400
- Produced yesteryear the High German companionship Gesellschaft für Sichere Mobile Kommunikation mbH (GSMK).
- For GSM together with UMTS networks.
- Customized HTC mobile phone, amongst the operating scheme beingness a stripped downwards version of Windows Mobile. There are diverse other models available.
- Encryption amongst Twofish together with AES inwards parallel, both amongst 256-bit fundamental length, exchanged using a 4096-bit fundamental Diffie-Hellman algorithm.
- In 2001, the Dutch hacker together with digital rights activist Rop Gonggrijp started to come about highly secure phone, which was eventually launched inwards 2003 every bit the CryptoPhone 100.
- For the United States, the GSMK CryptoPhones are manufactured together with sold yesteryear the Las Vegas based companionship ESD America Inc.
- The cost of this telephone is 2.618,- euros.



Some other, predominantly commercial secure mobile phonation solutions are also provided yesteryear companies similar SecurDigital inwards the US, Nabishi inwards the UK, PrivateWave from Switzerland, CasperTech from Italy, GeeksPhone from Spain, SecurStar from Germany, Compumatica from The Netherlands, together with Gold Lock from Israel. Encrochat is also a highly secured together with customized jail mobile telephone phone, made yesteryear a pocket-sized companionship from Canada.


All these phones purpose a hybrid cryptosystem, inwards which the conversation is encrypted amongst a really potent symmetrical cipher, oft AES amongst 256-bit key. This fundamental is together with so encrypted amongst a public-key cryptosystem, similar RSA or ECC, together with transmitted together amongst the encrypted message. Only the intended recepient tin together with so decrypt the fundamental together with henceforth the message. By this method, end-to-end safety all the agency through Earth telephone network is provided.

The almost secure mobile phones are made yesteryear defense forcefulness contracters, oft primarily for beingness used yesteryear national authorities together with armed services officials. This is because using telephones, or whatever other communication device, made yesteryear a unusual companionship ever bears the peril of undercover backdoors, allowing slowly access to the encrypted conversation.

Countries, together with also international organisations, without their ain production facilities for armed services flat encryption equipment oft become to companies inwards pocket-sized or neutral nations, where they aspect to convey the to the lowest degree harm inwards illustration at that topographic point would last a hidden backdoor.

Another inevitable peril of mobile phones is using them inwards (public) places where conversations tin easily last overheard yesteryear other people or yesteryear listening devices. Secure wireline desk elevation phones tin counter this threat yesteryear installing them inwards rooms which are secured against eavesdropping. This is also i of the reasons why conversations at the highest flat (TOP SECRET/SCI inwards the United States, TOP SECRET elsewhere) are oft restricted to dedicated wireline circuits only.


> See also: How Obama's BlackBerry got secured



Links
- Motherboard.Vice.com: Canada Bought $50 Million Worth of 'Secure' Phone Systems from the NSA
- OSNews.com: The instant operating scheme hiding inwards every mobile phone

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