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From: hardie@sask.UUCP (Peter Hardie)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Packet Radio Vax access
Message-ID: <128@sask.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 18:41:34 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 19 18:41:34 1984
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The password problem is a bit awkward but you should be able to circumvent
it by having the machine transmit a 'challenge' sequence to you which you
have to mangle in some specified way and send back. Since you are the only one
who knows how to mangle the sequence correctly it should be secure. But this
does not solve the problem of anyone being able to watch your entire session.
I assume that anything related to work that is done using amateur frequencies
would be illegal but how about doing an assignment? For that matter, would
it be illegal to do ham-related work (e.g. compute predictions for oscar-10)
on an amateur radio link into a machine for which you are paying commercial
rates for cpu time etc.?

pete ve5bel
ihnp4!sask!hardie