[Cryptography] Clarification: The NSA ex- Top Secret Umbra document cited yesteday

[John Young]

OK, good explanation and much appreciated.

Jhon

At 03:19 PM 5/1/2021, you wrote:
> > John Young wrote:
> > Clarification: The NSA ex-Top Secret Umbra document cited yesterday is
>from the NSA journal "Cryptologic Quarterly,"
> > titled as shown on the image below (not the file name),
> > likely NSA author redacted, circa 1983 (154 footnotes dated 1977-1983).
>Last page shows source dated 1991.
> > https://cryptome.org/2021/04/Joseph-Meyer-IEEE-1977.pdf
>
>Hello John,
>
>I do not believe what you wrote about the article "NSA Comes out of the
>Closet: The Debate over Public Cryptography in the Inman Era" from the NSA
>journal "Cryptologic Quarterly being circa 1983  is accurate.
>
>This Cryptologic Quarterly article was from Volume 15 No. 1 (Spring 1996) of
>Cryptologic Quarterly. The two public internet sources which confirm that
>are:
>
>- footnote 120 of
>https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB441/docs/doc%206%20%202008-021%20Bur
>r%20Release%20Document%202%20-%20Part%20C.pdf  (PDF page 55)
>
>- https://cryptocellar.org/NSA/nsa_cq_1982-96.pdf (PDF page 30)
>
>Additionally, Footnote 10 of the "NSA Comes out of the Closet" article is
>dated July 1995, so could not have been published earlier than that.
>
>I reported the above facts yesterday in the LinkedIn Group "Cryptographers
>and Cryptanalysts" (which I founded and manage) at
>https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3901854/
>
>Tony Patti
>crypto at glassblower.info
>
>
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