Re:US defense secretary circumvents the official communicati...
by ethbr1 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @12:36PM
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Aside from that, there's base level authentication that it is Hegseth.
Is this device using DoD PKI [0]?
If not, then how is DoD managing access to it? Or is there a post-it with a local password stuck to it?
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card#Integrate...
For their use case, which requires communication between two (or more) arbitrary users who never communicated before among millions of users, running on cheap commodity hardware over wireless connectivity to the internet.
Leaving encryption aside, looking only at the network level, the DoD is capable of using a dedicated fiber line. Or rather a parallel fiber infrastructure.