Re: Security for amateurradio TCP/IP server!

[Bob Snyder]

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, M Taylor wrote:

> Now I would be interested to see if a secure (cryptographic) authenication
> method would be acceptable - no data is encrypted just a secure
> "handshake" to validate a remote operator's identity, perhaps using
> public key digital signatures.

When I considered it a couple of years ago, it seemed to me that a
public-key authenticated ssh session would be OK under FCC regs, since the
intent is not to obscure, and because the the "encrypted" portion can be
decrypted using my public key, which anyone can have.

Bob N2KGO