Clear-Text Patch? was: Re: OpenSSH 5.1: call for testing

[Dan Yefimov]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> >> The amateur radio people still need this tweak in order to use
> >> OpenSSH over ham radio data links.  The FCC does not allow
> >> encryption of data on our frequencies, but does allow encryption for
> >> authentication purposes.
> >
> > I'm sorry about your government's stupid laws, but I think that there
> > is much potential for users to harm themselves if we were to add the
> > null cipher.
> 
> It's likely that your government or other nearby governments have
> similar "stupid" laws for amateur radio.  Many do.  Radio links know
> no political boundaries, so encryption over radio links tends to
> make the powers-that-be nervous and they legislate against it.
> Either that or they borrowed bits from FCC regulations which is also
> common.
> 
Hmm. Strange point. Internet due to it's nature knows no political boundaries 
too, but AFAIK no country prohibits encrypted traffic over it. I don't in any 
way vote against including the none cipher in the OpenSSH distribution, but I 
think that the problem of such actually stupid regulations would be much better 
solved in a legislative way.
-- 

    Sincerely Your, Dan.