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I would guess not. Any authentication scheme would just be another risk point to not be able to talk to the thing from earth.
But I'm just guessing.
I wouldn’t be so sure. They were probably scared the Russians might sabotage it.
That's actually a good point. However, the technology and conceptual understanding of encryption was not really a thing in 1970
Sure encryption was around but it was mostly people with code books