[Cryptography] "How Long Will Unbreakable Commercial Encryption Last?"
John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Sun Sep 22 09:49:21 EDT 2019
Stewart Baker was NSA General Counsel in Crypto
War 1 and has consistently advocated the Agency's
policies, and remains under lifetime NDA.
Related: Since 9/11 the vastly expanded and amply
funded NSA declares how it has formidably
emplaced itself in gov/com/edu/org worldwide to
influence encryption controls, nearly always
requiring NDA of participants (at "over 200 universities in 44 states"):
https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/presidential-transition-documents/2016_Insert_3_Did_You_Know_4.pdf
"NSA has representatives at all Intelligence
Community agencies, at all of the military
combatant commands, and at many other federal
agencies in order to enhance and refine support to our partners.
All foreign signals intelligence information
produced by NSA is in response to specific
requirements submitted by our partners across the
government. NSAs priorities are derived from a
framework set by the President and executed by
the Director of National Intelligence.
NSAs four cryptologic centers in Georgia,
Colorado, Texas, and Hawaii not only provide
critical intelligence and information assurance
products and services to NSAs partners around
the globe, but the distributed architecture that
connects the centers and the NSA Washington area
headquarters also ensures continuity of operations.
Since 2001, NSA has deployed over 18,000
personnel into hostile zones to provide direct support to our warfighters.
NSA and the Department of Homeland Security have
recognized over 200 universities in 44 states,
the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico as
Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense
and Information Assurance Education and Research.
NSA partners with the National Science Foundation
to conduct GenCyber Camps week-long, no cost
summer camps aimed at increasing both interest in
cybersecurity careers and diversity in the
nations cybersecurity workforce for students
ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade. Over 160
camps were held in 33 states in 2016.
Over 200 patents are held by NSA personnel more
than any other federal agency."
If it were a private company, NSA would rank in
the top 10% of Fortune 500 companies in size and budget.
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