saturn comments on Open Thread, August 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: saturn 29 August 2010 07:13:50AM 4 points [-]

I do not know enough about spread-spectrum radio to say whether it would give the rebels the advantage, but if it does, the rebels would not need to encrypt the messages, and your statement was that not spread-spectrum radio but rather crypto confers advantages on rebels.

Spread-spectrum is crypto—the idea is to select a pattern (of frequencies) that eavesdroppers can't distinguish from random noise but which is predictable to the intended recipient.

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 29 August 2010 10:40:10PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the info.