Members of the deDECTed.org project group have cracked the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication (DECT) standard's encryption code.

"According to the researchers, the respective key used can be extracted from intercepted data traffic with a reasonable amount of effort," writes The H Security's Stefan Krempl.

"Before the presentation, the researchers informed the DECT Forum of their findings," Krempl writes. "The alliance behind the standard acknowledged [PDF file] the vulnerabilities and referred the researchers to a new, open cryptography approach it is co-developing with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)."

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