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Pi in the sky as ESA starts testing encrypted comms on International Space Station

Duncan Macdonald

Old technology

Early PROMS were very radiation resistant - (the structures were far bigger than current devices and used blown fuse technology - the SN54S473 had the grand total of 4k bits (512bytes!!) in a 20 pin DIL package). If they can still be obtained then they could be used to store multiple copies of the keys each with a checksum.

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