Cell Phone Encryption? 42
Black Diamond asks: "I know I'm not up to speed on cell phone encryption, but I was wondering, are there any cell phones that let you handle the encryption from your end of things? Something along the lines of a phone you hook up to your computer to input specific encryption keys for specific contacts, as well as a private key for yourself. Is such a thing plausible, or should you trust the standard encryption that comes on some cell phones nowadays?"
Re:Some thoughts from a ham (Score:3, Insightful)
With today's bleeding edge technology: I was just looking at the sprint wireless site, and found this pdf on one of the laptop modem cards.
http://www1.sprintpcs.com/media/Assets/Eq
It claims to have a total baud of 230.4 bps
recieve at 153.6 and sent at 76.8
Although this is the maximum baud, and the speed is changeable.
(so theortically you get, but in reality...)
These plans start at $100/mo with 300 MB data, or $120 with unlimited data.
From my personal expierence: Simply, data was too expensive for me- 7 dollars a month charge, 7 cents a minute- and I suffered for two weeks without internet while waiting for the DSL modem to ship. However, I did look into it before.
I currenetly use Cingular (Pac Bell) Wireless.
The phone manufacturer claims they are able to acheive 56k speeds, but Cingular claims 9.6kps due to network conditions (and time slots avialable).
I'm, pretty sure Sprint (or any other carrier) would limit your max speeds- just like dsl/cable modem providers do. So although the claim is 230k/s, your not really gonna get that kind of thruput.
So, unless your super paainoid (mafia) and have cash to burn (mafia), go for it!
I'm going to stick to my $35/mo basic calling plan.
73s
KG6....
(feeling parinoid)