[Cryptography] Improper censorship in Schwartzbeck article

[John Gilmore]

>  Tangential remark: Interesting reference:
>    Michael Schwartzbeck
>    "The Evolution of US Government Restrictions on
>     Using and Exporting Encryption Technologies"
>    From "Studies in Intelligence"  (the secret internal CIA magazine)
>    (date not obvious;  circa 1998)
>    http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/DOC_0006122418.pdf (prettier)
>    http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/DOC_0006231614.pdf (same, but uglier)

Thanks for the pointer.  The article ends with the government pushing
key escrow as a condition of export, which fell by the wayside 15
years ago, but it has good info on older crypto history like the
weakening of DES, and NSA's attack on RSA.

Both copies of this article show the scars of invalid agency
censorship.  For example, on the first page they whited out the names
of the first three directors of the Center for Communications Research
at NSA's captive think tank (a university-run nonprofit on the campus
of Princeton University).  However, their names are public knowledge
and were even in The Puzzle Palace, published 30 years ago.

For reference, they are: Cornell professor of mathematics J. Barkley
Rosser (1958-61); University of Chicago mathematics chairman Abraham
Adrian Albert (1961-1962); University of Illinois/Sandia Corporation
mathematician Richard A. Leibler (1962-1977).

These facts are not classified and there is no reason to waste time
pasting boxes over them.

Who knows what other "sooper top secret stuff" is hiding behind those
white boxes (that don't quite cover the descenders of some letters, in
certain places).

	John