Re: Security for amateurradio TCP/IP server!

[Andrew Benham]

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, M Taylor wrote:

> In Canada an encrypted telnet, ssh, SSL, or encrypted SMTP or POP3 would
> likely violate Radiocommunication Regulations section 47b:
> 
> 47. A person who operates radio apparatus that is licensed in the amateur
> radio service may only
> ...
> (b) use a code or cipher that is not secret; and

The encryption schemes around these days use published codes/ciphers,
it is merely the keys which are secret. I don't know whether this
is a legal nicety or not - you decide.

73, G8FSL

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