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I wonder where the borders lie between encryption and deliberate obfuscation - say, by native speakers of a little-known language (which was done for some WWII radio transmissions by the US [1]) and also to a far lesser extent by old-time London gangs using Cockney rhyming slang and variants thereof. [2]

[1] https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-indi...

[2] https://romanroadlondon.com/cockney-rhyming-slang-history/

Well, the whole purpose and ethos of ham radio is for everything to be public, and anyone can listen in to a conversation, so I think that's a good thing.

Except for the various proprietary voice codecs out there.

Is this a sideways slight against AREDN? Because I still think AREDN is pretty cool.

My understanding is that you're allowed to have encrypted communications, but only if the key is public.

Whether or not that counts as encryption, I don't know.