Re: Secure comms over ham radio?

From	Hils <hils@saynotospam.net>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Secure comms over ham radio?
Date	2014-05-06 18:00 +0100
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On 2014-05-06 17:43, RS Wood wrote:
> On 2014-05-06, Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> wrote:
>> On 2014-05-06 11:18, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
>>> The poor, poor folks who can't even be bothered to learn CW.  I hate
>>> to say it but if they can't do that, what can they do?
>>
>> I found learning Morse easy, but I wouldn't use it as a test to
>> exclude people from expressing dissent. OTOH the CW+OTP option has a
>> good deal of merit: if any revolutionary groups want to hire me to do
>> their communications, they can show me their manifestos. :-)
> 
> Help me with some remedial acronyms?  I don't recognize either CW or
> OTP.  Best I could do with DuckDuckGo was continuous wave pulse and
> over-temperature protection.  ?!

I was about to go out and made that acronym up on the spur of the moment
thinking readers would refer to the upthread article. :-) CW (morse
code) sending messages encrypted with one-time pads.

It's a mode commonly used by Israeli intelligence (and some other
spooks). There's often some here (among other frequencies):

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6606usb

Though at time of writing it's only sending an idler and its callsign.

Thread

Secure comms over ham radio? RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-02 20:17 +0000
  Re: Secure comms over ham radio? john <nospam@no.net> - 2014-05-02 12:46 -0800
    Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-02 21:02 +0000
      Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-05-03 08:02 +0100
      Re: Secure comms over ham radio? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-04 21:33 +0000
        Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-05 15:22 -0700
          Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-05-06 07:51 +0100
            Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-06 03:18 -0700
              Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-05-06 11:51 +0100
                Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-05-06 16:09 +0100
                Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-06 21:49 +0000
                Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2014-05-08 16:12 +0200
                Re: Secure comms over ham radio? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-06 16:43 +0000
                Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-05-06 18:00 +0100
                Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-06 17:02 +0000
                Re: Secure comms over ham radio? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-06 18:41 +0000
      Re: Secure comms over ham radio? john <nospam@no.net> - 2014-05-07 14:09 -0800
    Re: Secure comms over ham radio? john <nospam@no.net> - 2014-05-07 14:08 -0800

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