From khijol!erc at apple.com  Wed Jul 21 19:44:51 1993
From: khijol!erc at apple.com (Ed Carp)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 19:44:51 PDT
Subject: Encrypted data across international lines
In-Reply-To: <9307212331.AA04712@longs.lance.colostate.edu>
Message-ID: <m0oIq5y-00029gC@warrior>


> The FCC prohibits the use of codes in amateur radio transmissions, and
> violations are sufficient to revoke the license. This is enforced by

Well, yes and no.  The FCC prohibits the use or codes, ciphers, or anything
else whose primary purpose is to obscure the meaning of the message.  On
the other hand, compression, since its primary purpose is not to obscure,
is OK.  But it sure makes it hard for the average Joe Blow ham to read my
packet traffic.  Not that I have anything to hide, but doubling my throughput
on a 1200 baud half-duplex session is sort of important to me. :)
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