In message , Mark
writes
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:56:42 GMT, Bill wrote:

In message , Mark

As for decrypting true digital encrypted transmissions, I don't believe there
is such an animal since you NEED the key. Without it, you're just guessing.
Perhaps this box rambles through keys in a trial and error mode until
it picks
up a signal? Depending on the key size, this could take countless years to
accomplish.

Try doing a google search on "police tetra in the UK."
British police have recently gone from analogue FM to encrypted digital
and are no longer receivable by scanner users.
Where Britain goes today the Americans follow!!

That's because we're not fools. We let you do all the grunt work and
debugging for us. Why should we go through all that when you're willing?

Fair comment, slow down a bit though. Ours is far from debugged yet!
--
Bill

As for decrypting true digital encrypted transmissions, I don't
believe there
is such an animal since you NEED the key. Without it, you're just
guessing.
Perhaps this box rambles through keys in a trial and error mode until
it picks
up a signal? Depending on the key size, this could take countless
years to
accomplish.


Yes, I guess it's supposed to be some sort of number cruncher, scanning
when a digital encrypted signal is transmitted, which isn't very often.
There's not very many digital scanners in the county, like one or two,
so they don't really worry about encrypting unless it's a "major
operation". Maybe i misunderstood, he might have been telling me about
a box to decode not decrypt, saving me about $400 and using a normal
analog scanner?? I'll have to get ahold of him and clarify