Hard disagree. There should be more effort made to promote authentication and message signing (which does not require encryption to obscure meaning) and less tolerance for the use of proprietary codecs, modulations, and protocols (unpublished codes) like AMBE and PACTOR in amateur radio. It is unfortunate that there are many hams who misunderstand or mischaracterize Part 97 rules; even if there was broad support for the position of allowing “encryption” in the amateur community (there isn’t) you could never get it done. It has taken a decade of concerted effort to get this 300-baud nonsense wiped out against an overwhelmingly vocal cadre of people who seem to … really hate sailboats?! C’mon