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To: LS

Spread Spectrum and 128 bit encryption would stop this.

LLS


8 posted on 09/22/2006 12:40:38 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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Not if the operators are sloppy. One of the techniques employed by the Germans with Enigma that lead to the down fall of the crypto method was to transmit a 3 letter designation of the transform set, followed by the same 3 letters at the beginning of each message.

In short cryptography is no stronger than the weakest link... many times, that is the operators.
20 posted on 09/22/2006 1:14:32 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: LibLieSlayer; LS; Dog; blam; Marine_Uncle; yonif; SJackson; Lazamataz; HAL9000; Nick Danger; ...
"Spread Spectrum and 128 bit encryption would stop this."

No, it wouldn't.

The article gets it wrong. Hezbollah wasn't intercepting channel hopping freqs, decrypting, and then translating from Hebrew to Arabic in real time.

They were doing something far simpler: they were DF'ing the Israelis.

Direction Finding radio transmission techniques have been around for a century. That's right; a century.

You transmit, two different enemy recievers then triangulate your position. Now they know where you were when you made your last broadcast.

If you think about it in civilian radar detector terms, two antennas on a single radar detector will let you know the direction and range of the police radar gun's last transmission (e.g. Valentine 1 units)...with a little computer processing.

With the right software you can have a realtime map of your enemy's movements (well, for each transmission made, at least).

It doesn't matter if your signal is encrypted (for DF purposes). That would just mean that you don't see the mph figure on the police radar, by analogy. And it doesn't matter if your signal is spread spectrum (i.e. channel hopping). Why? Because you are still broadcasting radio energy from your same antenna.

What Israel failed to do in their offensive was to spoof their own Spread Spectrum, encrypted tank transmissions (e.g. with a couple of UAV's in areas away from the actual tank assaults). Simple spoofing would spread out Hezbollah's anti-tank defenses into areas where Israeli tanks were not venturing.

That being said, contrary to the nonsense in the news, Israel did quite well on the battlefield, anyway. Hezbollah is not itching for a repeat of the pounding that they received. Nor is Hamas.

28 posted on 09/22/2006 3:08:39 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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