[46368] in Cypherpunks
Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Jan 3 13:28:44 1996
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 10:18:14 -0800
To: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green), nobody@alpha.c2.org (Anonymous),
cypherpunks@toad.com
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
At 23:33 1/2/96 -0800, Lucky Green wrote:
Previous exchanges deleted...
>Infrared and laser are not very reliable between buildings during fog.
>Between your house and your neighbor, a low cost 900MHz bridge would be the
>best way to go. On such short distances, an omni-directional antenna will
>work just fine. Check out Solectek (cheaper) or Cylink (faster). Both offer
>DES link encryption.
With a tightly focused beam (light is easy, I don't know about lower
frequencies), you can prevent interception except by very obvious physical
devices. (e.g. Someone in a cherry picker truck.) You may be able to
avoid the need to encrypt the link (and all the paranoia about key
management, advances in factoring etc. that that implies.)
Bill
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