Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site trsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!trsvax!mikey From: mikey@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: Re: Packet Radio Vax access Message-ID: <52800036@trsvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 09:48:00 EDT Article-I.D.: trsvax.52800036 Posted: Tue Oct 23 09:48:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Oct-84 02:57:22 EDT References: <13200009@smu.UUCP> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:smu:13200009:trsvax:52800036:000:1044 Nf-From: trsvax!mikey Oct 23 08:48:00 1984 I don't think an encryption of your password would be illegal. As long as you ID'd yourself unencrypted anything else could be considered your "data" and as such wouldn't have to be in english. Besides, you don't want to have a password scheme on a radio system. You'd want a system that was interactive. The host would send a data stream to the terminal, the terminal would transform the data stream by an equation or algorithm that is unique to that terminal and known only to the terminal and the host, then transmit the modified data back to the host. The host would then check to see if it was the correct transformation. By using short data streams with complex algorithms the code would be virtually unbreakable. You could even have it "re-id" anytime the link is brought back from an idle state of say more than 2 minutes, and in any case, every few exchanges. I think the only legal issue is the business use. You could use it for "notes", personal mail, and "home"projects but that would be it. mikey at trsvax (KA5MJQ)