You don’t actually need encryption for thing like IP networks and IRC. I believe you are even allowed to use digital signatures, you just can’t encrypt the pay

You don’t actually need encryption for thing like IP networks and IRC. I believe you are even allowed to use digital signatures, you just can’t encrypt the payloads. I would argue a digital signature is not “messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning” So yeah, you can’t use it as your ISP but you can do quite a lot. The problem is finding enough other people in your area to set up nodes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_multimedia_radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_multimedia_radio