Researchers find ‘backdoor’ in encrypted police and military radios::The TETRA standard is used in radios worldwide. Security researchers have found multiple vulnerabilities in the underlying cryptography and its implementation, including issues that allow for the decryption of traffic.

  • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is there a list of situations where it’s illegal to use encryption in the US? It’s 100% illegal to transmit encrypted data over ham radio (although transmitting unencrypted packets and accessing the internet through unencrypted means over ham radio is not). I’m not sure of what other situations where using encryption is illegal though.

    • SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Hm, where does https play in though? Most, if not all, popular websites now use encryption. If Alice were to access Bob’s site via ham radio and his site uses https, is Alice breaking the law?