Re:FCC will vote on plan to remove outdated amateur radio te...
by jcalvinowens on Saturday October 28, 2023 @06:31PM
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> what about allowing authentication, rather than encryption? like, let people send MAC-protected checksums and signatures to make plaintext verifiable.
That's already allowed, and commonly done.
97.113(a)(4) doesn't say "no cryptography", it says (in part):
>> No amateur station shall transmit [...] messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning.
The scheme you're describing doesn't obscure the meaning of your transmissions, so it is perfectly legal.
That's already allowed, and commonly done.
97.113(a)(4) doesn't say "no cryptography", it says (in part):
>> No amateur station shall transmit [...] messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning.
The scheme you're describing doesn't obscure the meaning of your transmissions, so it is perfectly legal.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D...