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In a message dated 12/23/98 1:41:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, pk@ij.net
writes:
> I can understand the reluctance to allow electronic QSL cards but the
> fact that postage rates keep increasing and thus QSL bureau rates also
> rise there needs to be a serious examination of accepting QSL cards by
> other means.
Paul, there is one way that electronic QSLing could work...that is if
everyone obtained a strong encryption program such as PGP (it's free)
which generates both a Secret Key and a Public Key. You can even
electronically "sign" your encrypted QSL for authentication purposes.
Editing, tampering, fraud and cheating becomes impossible.
NOTE: Please refer to the article written by N4XX in the August 1998
issue of QST on page 26. The article is called "A Public-Key
Cryptographic Solution to an Age-Old QSL problem". It answers
most of the questions you'd have as to how it works, etc.
73 //Garie *K8KFJ*
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