[EAS] Next Generation

[RobertM]

It reminds me of an old story. NASA spent 10s of millions of dollars to try to develop a ballpoint pen that worked in zero gravity. The Russians issued Cosmonauts pencils.  Keep it simple. A direct satellite feed to each station. We can do it for close to zero cost. KISS is usually the best approach.  

> On Nov 14, 2014, at 11:04 PM, Mike McCarthy <towers at mre.com> wrote:
> 
> Guys...(and gals).  The mission isn't to create an overtly secure message
> cypher. The mission is to simply prevent accidental occurances and reduce
> to an acceptable level the risk of intrusion. 4 ASCII bytes is plenty to
> insure such. The old red envelope system was two alpha only letters.