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- From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
- Subject: Re: Motorola 'Secure-Clea
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.083201.7026@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <24.2B4A0D75@purplet.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 08:32:01 GMT
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- Owen.Lewis@purplet.demon.co.uk (Owen Lewis) writes:
- : -=> Quoting Ted Dunning to All <=-
- :
- : TD> ......... simple speech inversion really shouldn't be called a
- : TD> security device.
- :
- :
- :
- : Exactly so. I couldn't have put it better.
- :
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- What about the modern analog devices that use split band inversion where
- one of 32 programmable split points in the voice band may be selected
- and changed at 60 Hz or faster at "random?" Two separate inversions
- are performed, one for the lower sideband and one for the upper
- sideband around the split point. This seems *much* harder. This topic
- has come up before but perhaps we have new readers. Does anyone have
- any actual knowledge of or experience at trying to decode such a
- signal? With such short segments it seems to me that only brute force
- "try the possibilities" could work and the combinatorics are rather
- formidable with 32^60 or 2E90 possibilities in each second's worth of
- speech.
-
- Combine this with spread spectrum or Pulson modulation and, well....
-
- What's Pulson modulation? It is a method where the signal is impressed
- on a carrier that is a sequence of pseudo randomly spaced 1.5 ns pulses
- by dithering the pulse position about its expected position. In theory
- this can only be demodulated by a receiver that knows the pseudo random
- spacing of the carrier pulse train. A transceiver has been
- demonstrated by Pulson Communications using a pulse train centered at
- 1.9 GHz with a 100% pseudo random modulation of the pulses about the
- center period (before dithering.) Now that I think about it, a PRN
- that can spit out a new number every 500 ps sounds rather difficult.
- Not to mention the method for controling the pulse position that
- rapidly. Well, they say they have done it anyway.
-
- Bob
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