On 7/14/05, Per Crusefalk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ralf Baechle DL5RB wrote: > > >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. > > > > > > > That used to be the case also here in Sweden but I can't find > it any longer in the newer regulations. The transmission should > be identified by using the callsign but that's really it. > > 73 de Pär/sm0rwo > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
So it seems we've come full circle. Everything in Amature Radio is clear text, so any protocol for authentication has to be OK. Your ID and password comes along in clear text and that's that. I guess frequent password changes are the only answer to comfort with security. Seems like ftp and rcp may be the best bet. -- '73' Jim - KC9AOP - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
