Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Galileo (EuroGPS) cracked

[Ben Loftin]

>That means free access for consumers who use navigation devices
> -- including handheld receivers and systems installed in vehicles --
> that need PRNs to listen to satellites.

Ah no!

(1) The non-free codes will be encrypted (L1P, E6C, E6P) when the 'commerical'
codes are officially online so you will need the key similar to US military P
codes
     -  There will be a government encryption on L1P and E6P and commerical
encryption on E6C

http://www.galileoju.com/doc/Galileo%20standardisation%20document%20for%203GPP.pdf



(2) From the 'cracker's' website, http://gps.ece.cornell.edu/galileo/ the actual
usefullness is brought into question at the end of their 'report':

"Subsequently, the Cornell project team has learned that whereas the GIOVE-A
power spectrum is meant to be representative of the final Galileo signal power
spectrum, the GIOVE-A codes and navigation message were not meant to be the
same as the final Galileo codes and navigation message."

Still cool they were able to do it, must have been a slow summer :)

Ben