[FedCom] FCC spooky contract

[gary]

I should also point out that these radios do work in that new LMR band 
at the top of the military air band. Radioreference has one or two 
documented.

On 4/27/2010 12:20 AM, David I. Emery wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:54:29PM -0700, gary wrote:
>
>> Keeping it on target, here is a radio purchase request for Nellis AFB. I
>> hadn't heard of AES-256, but it is just another encryption scheme.
>
> 	AES is THE standard encryption scheme for both public and
> certain government uses that was chosen to replace DES after an
> extensive  review process involving both government and academic
> cryptography researchers that chose it from a group of several other
> proposed candidate algorithms that were very carefully studied for
> security flaws and performance problems.   DES is now considered
> obselete BTW.
>
> 	The 256 means the version of AES that works with 256 bit keys
> (VERY LONG).   This version is approved for some kinds of classified
> information...
>