There was some discussion on encryption 6-12 months ago on the list.
Depending on your location in the world, you may be able to use
encryption for authentication only - not to obscure the data, but just
for authenticating the user. I would be really careful with this in
the ham bands anyway.
> Besides, isn't 1200 baud pretty slow for the amount of traffic you'll
> probably be using?
I don't recall any mention of speed in the original post. There are
off the shelf solutions for packed at 9k6 and 19k2 shouldn't be much
harder. Instructions for 56K links are pretty easy to find too.
Depends on how much time/money there is to invest.
FWIW, 1200 baud is reasonable for many connections. It's not bad for
interactive sessions (telnet), but 9k6 would of course be much more
pleasant to use. For non-interactive sessions, who cares how fast the
data is transferred, as long as the network is not saturated and the
data does get through (the emergency situations with a need for real
time communications are not included in this argument).
Pat
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