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Is it legal to practice using a one-time pad?
Imagine two people want to practice the procedure for sending and receiving messages over amateur radio that are encrypted using a one-time pad. Here’s what doing this for real would look like:
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Is compression "encryption" under FCC regs?
I read this question about digital signatures and FCC prohibitions on "obscuring" messages in amateur transmissions, and it cause me to think of something: the difference between encryption and ...
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Signing of messages transmitted over ham radio
FCC Regulation 97.113 (a) 4 states that:
"messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning"
Are "Prohibited transmissions", I believe this is the clause that is used to prohibit ...
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Why do Amateur Radio organizations in the United States oppose the relaxation of encryption prohibitions?
I saw this question stating that it is illegal to encrypt traffic, at least in the US and UK. I also heard that there was recently an attempt to get the FCC to loosen this restriction, but a lot of ...
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