--- begin forwarded text MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 09:11:29 -0700 To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> From: Somebody Subject: Re: radio net

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. <Somebody's .sig> --- end forwarded text *That* sucks... I wonder who the "appropriate authorities" are? Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'