Re: Security for amateurradio TCP/IP server!

[Dirk Koopman]

On 28-Sep-99 Andrew Benham wrote:
> 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.
> 

It doesn't really matter, any kind of public key cryptography whether used
for authentication or signing (never mind data encryption) has been deemed by
the UK RA to be unacceptable, period.

What they are actually afraid of, reading between the lines, is
steganography: ie. hiding messages inside of largish blocks of binary data,
which exactly what a public key really is.

Dirk G1TLH 
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