[FSO/SHR/debian] SMS location app

Florian Hackenberger f.hackenberger at chello.at
Thu Dec 25 17:11:44 CET 2008


On Thursday 25 December 2008, William Kenworthy wrote:
> encryption has overhead - more than a 160 characters allows without
> tricks.
Sure it has overhead. This makes it useless for text messages. Control 
messages however can be very short. I tried it with the string 'loc' (3 
bytes/chars) and the gpg signature is 99 bytes long. That sums up to 
102 bytes and fits easily into a 160char SMS.

Cheers,
	Florian

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