On: The forgotten war on beepers

[karma_pharmer]

Nothing prevents you from sending encrypted payloads over POCSAG.

[ale42 → karma_pharmer]

Sure, you can send whatever you want... but is there any off-the-shelf solution that can display encrypted messages?

[kotaKat → ale42]

There are a bunch of POCSAG paging products that support their own flavors of encryption. Unication has a few that support AES encrypted messaging. You keyload it at the same time as the rest of the pager setup.

https://www.unication.com/alpha-pagers

And here's LRS's implementation of encryption on POCSAG:

https://paging-systems.readme.io/docs/encryption

[ale42 → kotaKat]

Nice to see, thanks!