The FCC prohibits the transmission of encrypted data via analog or digital signals by amateurs. I'd love to see them try to enforce that. What about chaffing and winnowing? Stego? Transmission of random noise? ;) Anyone have the text of the actual rules concerning this?
Put it like this, it took the Feds a long time to be willing to accept RTTY (Radio Teletype), because it used this 7(?)-bit ASCII CODE stuff. On the other hand, they've relaxed a lot, as amateurs have largely become computer hackers as well, equipment changed, Morse became less relevant.... As long as the ham user community doesn't get annoyed at you, and you don't abuse the available bandwidth, you ought to be able to stego a certain amount of traffic through the net, either using some sort of PointyHairedBoss code, or low-order bits in GIFs, or whatever. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639