Comment on Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 7 months agoPKI? I assume you mean asymmetric encryption? That’s been available long before the GPS system was launched. Why do you think it isn’t relevant?
grandkaiser@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The military didn’t design it for civilian use. That’s really all there is to it.
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’m the commenter you originally replied to. If the US military wanted unspoofable GPS available to everyone then it would be available to everyone. They only want the public to have unencrypted GPS, so that’s all we get.
grandkaiser@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The military is as concerned with civilian gps as much as they are with anything else that isn’t military-related: not their issue to solve. They won’t stop anyone from using encrypted gps. They really won’t. The only branch on the us that actively tries to prevent public encryption is the NSA. (Even then, they wouldn’t block something like gps). For the record, I’m a security engineer, previously worked for the DOD, and used to work in satcom.