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The relevant RFC is from (April 1st) 1991 - Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1217.html

Section 4 deals with Jam-Resistant Underwater Communication

    The ULS system proposed in (2) above has the weakness that it is
    readily jammed by simple depth charge explosions or other sources of
    acoustic noise (e.g., Analog Equipment Corporation DUCK-TALK voice
    synthesizers linked with 3,000 AMP amplifiers).  An alternative is to
    make use of the ultimate in jam resistance: neutrino transmission.
    For all practical purposes, almost nothing (including several light-
    years of lead) will stop a neutrino.  There is, however, a slight
    cross-section which can be exploited provided that a cubic mile of
    sea water is available for observing occasional neutrino-chlorine
    interactions which produce a detectable photon burst.  Thus, we have
    the basis for a highly effective, extremely low speed communication
    system for communicating with submarines.


> make use of the ultimate in jam resistance: neutrino transmission. For all practical purposes, almost nothing (including several light-years of lead) will stop a neutrino

Signals aren't jammed by being blocked but overpowered. If you want to disrupt someone's neutrino comms, you don't start building lead walls. You flood their volume with neutrino noise. (I don't know how feasible that is to continuously do over a large volume.)


To jam, presumably you need to know precisely where the receivers are.


> To jam, presumably you need to know precisely where the receivers are

You need to know where you don't want functioning receivers.


IANAP (I'm not a physicist)...

Can a neutrino detector estimate the direction from which a neutrino arrived?

I'm wondering if that could help discriminate signal vs. jamming.


Some neutrino detectors can estimate direction, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube_Neutrino_Observatory

which should be able to spot a supernova in our galaxy easily.




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