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Re:Show HN: A new protocol for packet radio including ECDSA ... by M0 on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:20PM (#18058964)
This one is not encrypted. Its plaintext or compressed (gzip I think). Crypto is only for digital signatures.
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Re:Show HN: A new protocol for packet radio including ECDSA ... by sneak on Monday September 24, 2018 @01:58PM (#18059811)
What if you used a nonstandard proprietary compression algorithm? Does non-encrypted have to mean “widely documented/implemented compression”?
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