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Satellite eavesdropping of 802.11b traffic

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kelsey)
Fri May 28 09:09:29 2004

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Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 12:35:00 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
From: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
Reply-To: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
To: cypherpunks@minder.net, cryptography@metzdowd.com

Guys,

Does anyone know whether the low-power nature of wireless LANs protects them from eavesdropping by satellite?  Is there some simple reference that would easily let me figure out whether transmitters at a given power are in danger of eavesdropping by satellite?  

Thanks,

--John 

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