I think few countries (including India) used to mandate the operators to negotiate null ciphering algorithm that is no ciphering - I verified this about 2 to 3 years back where my local network in bangalore was not turning on ciphering, however I am not aware of the current status.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Andreas.Eversberg <Andreas.Eversberg@versatel.de> wrote:

hi,

some stupid question: if a phone does not support any encryption, is it possible to use it on an official GSM network? (authentication works, of course) if so, what phone might it be?

regards

andreas

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

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