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Omnisec
was a manufacturer of
voice, fax and data encryption systems,
based in Dällikon (Switzerland). The company was established 1 in 1987 by
Dr. Pierre Schmid, a former employee of
Gretag
(later: Gretacoder, GDS and SafeNet).
The company was initially based in Regensdorf, the hometown of Gretag,
and had acquired the sales rights of Gretag cryptographic equipment for the
international governmental market, along with the ownership of some Gretag patents.
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According to their own account, Omnisec was not bound by export restrictions
— it was based in neutral Switzerland — and was able to supply its products
to any government and army in the world [1].
On 25 November 2020 however, the Swiss SRF television
program Rundschau revealed that for many years, Omnisec had been under full
control of the American intelligence services CIA and NSA, and had sold
weakened equipment 2 to its customers, even in Switzerland [2].
The latter was
discovered by the Swiss commission that investigated the role of the
Swiss Government in relation to competitor Crypto AG,
which had been owned jointly by the BND and the CIA [3].
➤ More about Omnisec
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Pierre Schmid was the first director of OmniSec. The first owner of the
company was Urs Ingold.
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Weakening of a cipher system is also known as a
backdoor.
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Currently, this page is just of placeholder for the encryption products of
Omnisec. At present Crypto Museum has no Omnisec products in its collection.
If you have any information about the company, or if you have
any items to expand our collection, please contact us.
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Below is a non-exchaustive overview of known OmniSec products.
Please note that the 3-digit model number was commonly prefixed
by the word 'Omnisec' (e.g. Omnisec 520) or by the letters 'OC'
(e.g. OC-520).
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205 Radio Encryptor 206 Secure Handheld Radio 207 Secure Mobile Radio 212 Secure telephone 213 Secure telephone 214 Telephone handset encryptor 215 Telephone handset encryptor 222 Secure Telephone 230 Secure Mobile Phone 320 E E-Mail Encryption Application 320 F File Encryption Application 410 IP Encryptor 'Corporate' (VPN) 411 IP Encryptor 'Office' (VPN) 421 IP Encryptor (VPN)
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422 IP Encryptor (VPN) 423 IP Encryptor (VPN) 512 Secure Field Message Terminal 520 Fax Encryptor 525 Fax Encryptor 644 Multi-Link Encryptor 650 High-Speed Link Encryptor 660 Multi-Link Encryptor 710 Key Management Center (KMC) 711 Key Management Center (KMC) 730 Network Management Center 731 Network Management Center 736 Network Management Center 910 Secure Message Field Terminal
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© Crypto Museum. Created: Wednesday 07 January 2015. Last changed: Thursday, 25 November 2021 - 13:26 CET.
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