• SuperJetShoes@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As another commenter said, I don’t think cryptography is the main problem.

    You’ve got to be able to modulate some numbers out of the radio signal first before you need to be concerned if it’s encrypted or not.

    GPS signals from power conserving satellites are so weak that I’d imagine that overwhelming them with noise on all frequencies would be the easy answer. (Although there’s a Big Brain hyper-cunning answer to that…).

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      1 year ago

      Some GPS jammers are known to transmit, instead of noise, a bad signal which creates an offset in the timing to calculate a false position. But with encrypted military GPS, that’s not as effective.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t think PGMs with M-Code GPS capabilities are being provided to Ukraine, but that is definitely something well outside of my casual knowledge base, so I’m open to being corrected.