Re: Success! TWO questions remain

From: Curt Mills, WE7U (zhbbyt.nlaeyoho@internets.ru)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 19:27:40 EET

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    On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Margaret Leber wrote:

    > Hamish Moffatt wrote:
    >
    > > Compression is still hiding the data and I would say breaks the rules.
    > > Better solution: use SSH. You can have public key authentication (no
    > > cleartext passwords) without any encryption or compression.
    >
    > Is encrypting even a password permitted outside of control of space
    > stations?

    As I understand it, it's allowed in the U.S. for authentication
    purposes (passwords), but not for hiding the rest of the text.
    Can't speak for other countries rules.

    Compression is also allowed as long as it's a well accepted and
    documented protocol that's in use. In other words, it's purpose is
    for getting more data through a smaller pipe rather than obscuring
    the meaning of the data. One should be able to grab the data and
    de-compress it, assuming they have the technical know-how to do so.

    As with anything, you'll still get arguments both ways on both
    authentication and compression issues. See what the TCP/IP guys are
    doing on RF. They use encrypted authentication at times, and
    commonly accepted compression as well. 

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Curt Mills, WE7U                    tovhabu.sttu@stratuswave.net
Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin
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