Closed ITCMD closed 11 months ago
Thanks for the feedback! There was a bit of discussion a while back but I'm not sure if we ever came to a conclusion. We'll have to discuss more as a project team and get back to you on that.
Hi @ITCMD! The Project Leadership Team met yesterday to consider your proposal and unfortunately, we're not moving forward with it at this time. Our policy on feature enhancements is that they should be usable by amateurs worldwide, and since encryption would only be usable by some hams outside the US at best, this would not be allowed by the current policy.
That said, please feel free to submit any other feature suggestions to us! We just ask that you provide the following information if possible:
Has there been the consideration of allowing some sort of encryption within freeDV?
Obviously this would not be useable for USA amateur radio. However, in some countries no such encryption laws exist, and having an option for any type of wartime use would be extremely valuable. Currently only military agencies have this, and having an open-source option would be fantastic.
I would expect this would be somewhat easy to implement (relatively. I know it's not as simple as adding a few lines of code). Something as simple as an optional config file would be great to add this option.
Has this been considered? Do you think someone could come in and create a fork with this feature? If so, how would you suggest they do so? I'd be interested in hiring someone to do it.