I’m surprised this hasn’t happened already, or isn’t more widely being done. One thing that I didn’t see in the article is a discussion around authentication o

I’m surprised this hasn’t happened already, or isn’t more widely being done. One thing that I didn’t see in the article is a discussion around authentication of the radio broadcast. I don’t know anything about radio encryption, but I assume that like other forms of encryption, the receiver is able to authenticate the source. This seems like something anyone would want, like TLS for radio. I get the desire for transparency, but that should that trump the need for trusted radio transmissions? Also, it’s interesting to see discussion of the opposite issue around encryption. Where in this case it’s the gov’t being asked to be open, as opposed to law enforcement’s desire to have backdoors in our devices.