Re:CCC Talk: All cops are broadcasting Obtaining the secret ...
by flangola7 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @07:48PM
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Is it completely closed or only source-available?
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Re:CCC Talk: All cops are broadcasting Obtaining the secret ...
by wkat4242 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @10:52PM
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It's completely closed (not even source available) but there's unlicensed software implementations available from third parties. E.g. libmbe.
AMBE in most equipment was provided in a physical chip for protection however some firmware implementations existed in hardware from big players and they were reverse-engineered.
Most of the Chinese B-brand (AliExpress stuff) radios use this reverse-engineered software implementation. They're not licensed but a Chinese company pretends to license this on behalf of DVSI though it's totally illegal. The A-brands like hytera use the official one of course.
See the popup warning on this page: https://www.dvsinc.com/soft_products/software.shtml
Since the closed nature of this codec goes counter to ham radio principles some open source codecs were also developed. The best example is codec2.