HOW WILL THE IT NETWORK SYSTEM LOOK LIKE? At first, a web of base HF station with or without internet access will be established. Targeted are former Yugoslavia and Albania, together with partner organisations in the EU and other wireless encryption friendly states. An IT consortium has to be established for this purpose, with a research & development pool and a financial pool for the production of units and further software development and a legal pool for legal issues connected with the establishment of these stations. PACT SYSTEMS will provide on site training and set-up of the hardware. Each station will have a 7 unit alpha numerical id designator, p.e. GA452L7, which will be used for ID purposes and sel- cal operations. The designator will also be the stations e-mail address and crypto key ID. There will be a central crypto key management office, which will manage the production of keys on smart card modules, but won't have the actual con- trol of them and will serve as a service to the IT community. A web of trust would have to be established to ensure the total security of the system for all its users, and key management procedures would have to be implemented. As it is clear from the above, the IT system has the main security flaw in the web of trust, as all advanced encryption based systems. If a key is passed along to a third party outside the IT network, the network is compromised. In the future, the system could include frequency hopping, frequency offset and burst data transmission for enhanced pre- vention of interception, jamming, direction finding and spoofing. Any of these new developments would of course need a new series of research work and in this respect new funds. With IT, the civil tactical community will get access to relatively cheap and reliable secure point to point voice and data com- munication, together with possibilities of audioconferencing, electronic message store and forwarding service and bul- letin dissemination. Each of the stations will also be a valuable research tool for the telecommunications in the communi- ty where it will be used, with the possibility of serving as an r&d platform for future development and the furthering of knowledge and know how in the field of digital communications as well as serving as a temporary platform for tactical broadcasting. Mobile IT units will bring access to the global digital networks to communities, which need this kind of em- powerment in hostile environments. The IT consortium will also take a proactive role in policy issues concerning the use of the HF spectrum for civil tactical purposes. TECHNICAL INFORMATION FOR THE PROTOTYPE IT SYSTEM UNIT: FREQUENCY RANGE 1.6-30 MHZ TX FREQUENCY RANGE 5-30 MHZ RX 100 PROGRAMMABLE CHANNELS 60 SCAN CHANNELS POWER OUTPUT: FROM 1SOW TO 1 KW, DEPENDING ON SOLUTION FREQUENCY STABILITY: +/- 10 HZ OPERATING MODES: I3E, H3E, R3E, 12B, CW, SSB, RTTY, PACKET, ARQ, FEC PROCESSOR: PENTIUM I ADSP OPEN ARCHITECTURE MODEM {60-1200 BPS DATA RATES AT 3KHZ TRANSMISSION BANDWIDTH LIMITATIONS MICROPROCESSOR CONTROLLED ANTENNA COUPLER MULTI-BAND BASE STATION ANTENNA COOLING FAN FOR CONTINUOUS TRANSMIT OPERATIONS (TACTICAL BROADCAST RADIO IMPLEMENTATION! HAROWARE 256 BIT GOST 28147-89 ENCRYPTION MODULE WITH SESSION KEY GENERATION ‘SMART CARD PRIVATE KEY STORAGE ETHERNET INTERNET GATEWAY SOFTWARE RSA 56-128 BIT ENCRYPTED IP SUPPORT VOICE CONFERENCING SELECTIVE CALL AVAILABILITY (SELCAL 7 UNITS: OPEN ARCHITECTURE TARGET COUNTRIES FOR THE IT HF SYSTEM: EF (WIRELESS ENCRYPTION FRIENDLY), EH (WIRELESS ENCRYPTION HOSTILE AUSTRIA BELGIUM (4 WEEKS NOTICE BULGARIA CZECH REPUBLIC DENMARK FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY