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I always thought that encryption not being allowed was a way to discourage illegal commercial use of it. No business wants their comms in the clear with no mea
by alibarber 5y ago
I always thought that encryption not being allowed was a way to discourage illegal commercial use of it.
No business wants their comms in the clear with no means of verifying the sender of the message - so ham radio would be useless to them.
- fragmede 5y agoBut even not-for-business, I don't want someone else to be able to impersonate others, so signatures/verification still needs to be supported. Otherwise someone who's good at voice impersonations of others could wreak havok.
- tjohns 5y agoThere is no rule against using digital signatures for authentication. Your actual message just has to be in the clear. The exact wording is in 97.113: "No amateur station shall transmit... messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning".