05/18/2006 • IT Security / Cyber Security

Babylon Mobile – Encryption for mobile phones

Babylon Mobile, Safe-com’s new encryption software for the mobile phone market, is a pure software solution and does not aim at expensive special terminal equipment, but at a variety of market-known Smartphones.

It is a common misbelieve that mobile communication can not be tapped because it is already encrypted. It is true that the communication signals are encrypted between the mobile phone and the GSM base station antenna mast, but this data stream nowadays can be decrypted with a common Personal Computer. Furthermore, the transmission between the sending antenna mast and the receiving antenna mast contains no encryption at all. Babylon Mobile was developed for those people who can be damaged by the tapping of mobile phones. Of course, you can try to avoid such communication to be held over a mobile phone, but this is approach is rather unrealistic in our fast moving mobile world. Typically, all the content of communication is being shared over mobile phones. Until today you either were vulnerable to tapping attacks or you would have been dependent on very expensive special encryption devices.

Babylon Mobile meets the most current state of the art technical abilities and is, therefore, the best possibility to secure your mobile communication against tapping attacks of third parties. The used encryption and key exchange algorithms are globally standardized and certified. They provide a reliable protection against all kind of different tapping scenarios. Babylon Mobile uses the save Diffie-Hellman 1024 Bit Standard of key-exchange and the AES-encryption with 256 Bit key length for the voice encryption. Babylon Mobile is a pure software solution and recommended for all users of Smartphones and Pocket PC’s like decision makers in large companies, auditors and tax consultants, medical doctors, journalists, Private investigators, governmental officials, police and military, as well as all people who feel that they would not like to share their personal life to anyone. Summarized Babylon Mobile is interesting for them who communicate mobile about confidential data. The common way to avert danger from your self is not to talk about critical themes via mobile phones. But this intent is not very topical in our mobile world of today.

As a pure software solution Babylon Mobile does not aim at expensive special units to be used (e.g. Mobile phones with additional components), but at a variety of market-known Smartphones. Babylon Mobile is completely integrable into their system software and allows directly choosing of a secure channel from their contact database. One More user-friendly vantage of Babylon Mobile is the compatibility of market-known Smartphones and Pocket PC´s based on Windows CE and Symbian. So there is no necessity of additional Special-Hardware. The only premise for encrypted communication via Babylon Mobile is that all involved parties have installed the Babylon Mobile Software with a valid license.

Using modern software technologies guarantees excellent transmission quality even at highest encryption status. Besides a secured “Mobile-to-Mobile-communication” the integration in land lines with the Babylon Communication Gateway is possible. So it affords to initiate encrypted calls between mobile phones and the land line (“Mobile-to-fixed-communication”). For the customer can be generated a positive side effect because the encrypted communication occurs via the data chanel. With data options the user will profits by a low priced unit per minute.

Example: Data 30 (T-Mobile) This option supplies a data transfer volume of 30MB and costs a monthly basic fee of 10 €. Therewith it is possible to speak almost for 850 minutes encrypted with Babylon Mobile which responds to a minute price of 0,01 €.

Babylon Mobile secure package

At the moment Babylon Mobile is offered in 4 different license packages. These act on the number of active and passive licenses, Service and the general duration of the contract. With an active license the user have the possibility to initiate and accept incoming encrypted calls whereas an owner of a passive license are only authorized to accept incoming encrypted calls. The license packages are also leasing based available. More information you can find on www.babylon-mobile.com . Of course as known there is still the possibility to have unencrypted calls with Babylon Mobile.

About Babylon Mobile


Babylon Mobile is developed by Safe-com GmbH & Co. KG, Germany. In the middle of 2003 the idea of a new encryption software was born and since then steady developed. In July 2005 appears the first Pre-release version which was tested by partners and selected customers. Since October 2005 Babylon Mobile supports the platform Symbian and affords the compatibility with many devices.

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