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In article <790@ariel.unm.edu> ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu.UUCP (Duke McMullan n5gax) writes:
>In article <OTTO.89Oct17163149@tukki.jyu.fi> otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
>writes:
>>Preventation: does anyone know of cheap but reasonably reliable scramblers ?

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>Cheap and hard to defeat -- I don't think it exists, but it could, and the
>technology is HERE TODAY! It actually wouldn't be hard to integrate the whole
>schmeer, including D/A, A/D, key management, (en/de)cryption, and an automatic
>slicer-dicer for carrots all on the same chip. The thing that would make it
>cheap is volume production, which probably won't happen, at least not soon.
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I'm not too concerned about scrambling the signal on the lines.  What
does bother me is that when I use a cordless phone, anyone close by
can listen in to the radio signal without tapping the line.  Producing
a cordless phone with encryption between the handset and the base may
be a good incentive for volume production of such a chip.  (A switch 
could be provided so that two of the same type of phones could also
encrypt end to end.)

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