Re: [perpass] Fwd: Re: perens-perpass-appropriate-response-01

["Christian Huitema" <[e-mail]>]

> We can't have encryption when we use HTTP over Amateur Radio in the US and
many
> other countries. There is self-policing on ham frequencies that requires
that people be 
> able to copy other people's transmissions, and encryption defeats that.
Obviously we
> don't put confidential data on those frequencies, that belongs on your
cell phone. So, an 
> authentication-only WiFi protocol is needed for Amateur Radio, and
possibly an
> authentication-only version of TLS.

I for one cannot see why we would deliberately sabotage the security of the
entire Internet just to enable amateur radio to conveniently use Internet
applications and protocols. 

The amateur radio restrictions are very much the same restrictions that
hampered the security of other Internet links before crypto was deregulated
in the 90's. Governments  used the power of regulation and licensing to
ensure that these restrictions were kept in place for amateur radio. That's
too bad, but we should not make the whole Internet insecure just to please
the radio amateurs.

-- Christian Huitema