On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Jim Choate wrote:
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Subject: Re: Mack the Harrs over Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 13:43:42 +0200 From: Zooko Journeyman <zooko@wildgoose.dagny>
Besides, how much encryption is needed between two points if intercepting the traffic is expensive, the communications protocol is undocumented (as far as anyone outside NASA is concerned), and the actual frequency is also hard to find?
Not to mention that the communication protocol is apparently broken and drops most of the data. :-P
Really? You try sending data over 10 light-seconds using nothing but the equivalent of your Mag-Lite flashlight and then pick it up AND successfuly decode the data using nothing more than spare cycles in the DSN reception network.
I suspect you are seriously underestimating the amount of noise betwix here and there...
I suspect you'd need a dish the size of your house to pick up the signal. -r.w.