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Re: The un-BBS
<In mail Evidence Inc. said:>
>
> No, the FCC interpretation was that Amateurs have an obligation
> to make sure that all transmissions from their stations conform
> to the requirements of the FCC Part 97 rules. Broadcasting encrypted
> communcations on amateur radio is itself a violation of the rules.
> That's right!! the government has already banned encryption.... on
> Ham Radio.
Not entirely true...
The rules governing amateur radio operators says that you can not
use any secret codes or ciphers whose intent is to obscure meaning.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ASCII is a code but it is used in packet and such to convey information
in an agreed upon format, not to obscure the meaning of the message.
My contention is that a signature, while encrypted, is not encrypted
to obscure the meaning. It says it is a sig, it is a sig, and contains
no other information that is not readily available (email addresses can
be included, but it is retrievable with a commonly available program PGP.)
Oh, and don't let the 2 by 3 format of my callsign mislead you. It's my
original callsign... I didn't want to bother with making everyone learn
a new one.
[If anyone has specific ham radio questions not relating to crypto,
please feel free to write email to me.]
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Tantalus Inc. Jim Sewell Amateur Radio: KD4CKQ
P.O. Box 2310 Programmer Internet: [email protected]
Key West, FL 33045 C-Unix-PC Compu$erve: 71061,1027
(305)293-8100 PGP via email on request.
1K-bit Fingerprint: 8E 14 68 90 37 87 EF B3 C4 CF CD 9A 3E F9 4A 73