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Generic encryption keyloading software?

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ElroyJetson

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Does anybody know if anyone has ever put forth the effort to create an encryption keyloading software package that works on any P25 compliant radio and isn't an expensive, rigorously controlled product from a major radio company?

It seems to me that it's a relatively simple concept. Certainly there's no NEED to do this with dedicated
hardware, all it takes is the right app to generate the data and the appropriate cable to send it to the radio.

The Harris key manager software is just that...software. But software that has installation and operation restrictions on it. Which I think is actually kind of silly, but it is what it is.

I can't believe that after all these years nobody has come up with a software equivalent of the good old T3011DX keyloader or some other newer KVL like a 4000.
 

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I'm also quite interested in a software solution. I would imagine that commercially this hasn't been done due to FIPS compliance being difficult to achieve. There was a thread on the now gone P25.ca where someone was investigating the data stream between the KVL and the target radio.
 

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Sounds great! What do we need to do it? I can think of a aurduino or raspberry pi based unit...... super helpful to be able to be loaded from another loader.. TT
 

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It’s just not going to happen.... don’t ask me why... the idea is good but it will nwvet happen.

If we play with the big boy radios, we are going to have to get out the checkbook....
 
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