Re: SSH and the NONE option

[Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:22:22AM -0500, Bill Vodall wrote:

> It would be very good for us amateurs (at least we Americans living
> with regulations from the dark ages) if the "none" option on encryption
> was still available.   One of these days I plan to contact the openSSH
> folks with this request -- unless somebody here has a better
> idea.

It's not only the US that forbid encryption in amateur radio - it's the
legislation of every country that I know of, based on international
regulations.  And I'm favor of that because otherwise amateur radio
would probably turn into a fancy telephone & internet replacement.

The only exception I recall are encrypted transmission for the control
of amateur satellites which were recently legalized in Germany and
a transmission for comemoration of breaking the German ww2 encryption
machine a while ago were a UK station was transmitting test encrypted
with a single wheel enigma in cw and the receiving stations were supposed
to break it which had to be approved by the British OFCOM first.

73 de DL5RB op Ralf

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