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Re:FCC will vote on plan to remove outdated amateur radio te... by thrtythreeforty on Saturday October 28, 2023 @04:50PM (#38053242)
Signatures on a cleartext transmission should be okay, I think. The FCC prohibits obscured meaning and as long as the encoding scheme is published (and you're courteous and follow the band plan) then I don't think there's anything forbidding making traffic un-forgeable with cryptography.
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Re:FCC will vote on plan to remove outdated amateur radio te... by myself248 on Saturday October 28, 2023 @05:08PM (#38053393)
That's my understanding as well.

But I'd also bet a dollar that someone fails to understand the difference and gets their undies in a massive twist about it.

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