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Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 09:11:29 -0700
To: Robert Hettinga
I know what Single Sideband means. As I've said before, and what you failed to read later on in this thread, evidently, is that there are commercial Single Sideband radios out there which have the range of ham sets. These radios are used for commercial ship-to-shore traffic, and I expect that encryption is legal on them. I expect that, because these frequencies are subject to international convention rather than federal law, they have more leeway (heh... nautical pun) on their use. Including, I bet, digital packets and encryption.
If I remember correctly, this is escrowed encryption using code
books deposited with the appropriate authorities.