[Cryptography] "U.S. Has Made ‘Dramatic Change’ in Technology Used for Nuclear Code System"

[Whitfield Diffie]

>  Search the subject line in Google - the WSJ generally
> lets you read an article if the Referrer is a search engine.

    There is a longer version of the article at

https://newszxcv.com/u-s-has-produced-dramatic-change-in-technologies-utilized-for-nuclear-code-program/

but it is riddled with bizarre word usages I can't account for.

            Whit


On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 12:41 PM Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> wrote:

> "Revamped spy museum gives public access to one of nation’s most secretive
> subjects"
>
> Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about the NSA's recently
> re-opened National Cryptologic Museum.  Cool pictures of some of the gear
> on display.
>
> The article's title is a bit click-baity.  Apparently something about the
> whole presidential approval system for nuclear war has been completely
> changed very recently, and the old stuff is now no longer considered
> sensitive, so they are showing it off.  What the article talks about makes
> little sense:  That there's some new mechanism for generating the codes.
> The old one used a DEC Alpha, now on display.  But how complicated could
> that system really have been?  Details are clearly missing.
>
> The article is at
>
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-has-made-dramatic-change-in-technology-used-for-nuclear-code-system-11665758981
>
> ...but you probably need a subscription to read it through that link.
> Search the subject line in Google - the WSJ generally lets you read an
> article if the Referrer is a search engine.
>
>                                                         -- Jerry
>
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