Ken Restivo writes: > The GNU Radio project made this even more apparent: with a > reasonably fast computer, I could see it possible to emulate the > capacity of these WiFi chips entirely in software on a general > purpose CPU or decent DSP (notwithstanding how practical that is, > but it's at least possible).
Exactly. That's why John Gilmore funds the various projects that he funds. He specializes in conversion by demonstration. "DES is inadequate." "No, it isn't." "Oh? <hack, hack> I just built a machine which breaks DES in minutes." "Oh, I guess it is." "I want to export cryptographically secure communications." "You can't export crypo." "Oh? <hack, hack> I just paid a team to develop FreeS/WAN in a free country, and I'm importing crypto." "We want a law that prevents anybody from recording this HDTV stream if this particular bit is set." "Oh? <hack, hack> GNU Radio now decodes HDTV and it ignores your bit." By the way, has everybody seen http://www.wavesec.org/ ? -- --My blog is at angry-economist.russnelson.com | Rebecca's incredibly neat Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | County Fair quilt is now 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | at http://rebeccanelson.com/ Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | quilt/index.html -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
