KASUMI (A5/3), 3G GSM Wireless Cipher Hacked

3G GSM Wireless Cipher KASUMI Hacked snapvoip.blogspot.com
The standard cipher  used on 3G GSM networks known to us as KASUMI has been broken by a team of cryptographers.
Even though the paper is not public yet, but the Emergent Chaos blog carries an article on the attack. It also published a portion of the abstract of the paper;

In this paper we describe a new type of attack called a sandwich attack, and use it to construct a simple distinguisher for 7 of the 8 rounds of KASUMI with an amazingly high probability of 2⁻¹⁴. By using this distinguisher and analyzing the single remaining round, we can derive the complete 128 bit key of the full KASUMI by using only 4 related keys, 2²⁶ data, 2³⁰ bytes of memory, and 2³² time. These complexities are so small that we have actually simulated the attack in less than two hours on a single PC, and experimentally verified its correctness and complexity. Interestingly, neither our technique nor any other published attack can break MISTY in less than the 2¹²⁸ complexity of exhaustive search, which indicates that the changes made by the GSM Association in moving from MISTY to KASUMI resulted in a much weaker cryptosystem.

 Emergent Chaos blog via Threatpost