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Re:Sale of amateur radio AMPRnet TCP/IP addresses raised $108M by lima on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:20PM (#24756043)
Yep, TLS with forward secrecy is not legal to use on ham RF links. Same with SSH.
Re:Sale of amateur radio AMPRnet TCP/IP addresses raised $108M by ampdepolymerase on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:57PM (#24756532)
Let's hope no IoT company is stupid enough to send customer data over this. Stuff like LoRa is very popular these days, but they are low bandwidth. Would not be surprising if a company decides that MVNO providers are too expensive and rolls their own communications infrastructure.
Re:Sale of amateur radio AMPRnet TCP/IP addresses raised $108M by jcrawfordor on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:06PM (#24756616)
With few exceptions, all commercial use of amateur bands is prohibited, and licensing is by operator rather than by device. So for an IoT provider to run into this issue they'd have to have much larger problems on their hands as well.
Re:Sale of amateur radio AMPRnet TCP/IP addresses raised $108M by jasonjayr on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:12PM (#24756699)
Not a HAM, nor any expert by any means, but IIRC, LoRa + the Wifi Bands (2.4ghz/5.0ghz) permit encryption.

It's only the HAM bands that forbid encryption.