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From: terryr@ogicse.ogc.edu (Terry Rooker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: "Identify-Friend-or-Foe" questions
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Date: 10 Jan 90 03:28:20 GMT
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From: terryr@ogicse.ogc.edu (Terry Rooker)
In article <12931@cbnews.ATT.COM> erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp) writes:
>
[stuff deleted about IFF]

>But what would prevent an enemy from sending out a query, then if it got a
>response that it couldn't decrypt, using that to home in on a ship and zap
>it?  Unless a friendly wouldn't respond unless the query was encrypted - but
>that would cause problems, too, wouldn't it?

This is exactly why many are not too crazy about turning on IFF during
a shooting war.  It is also why aircrews turned IFF off over North
Vietnam.

-- 
Terry Rooker
terryr@cse.ogi.edu