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

[Donald Eastlake]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 4:31 PM Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:

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> I heard that the original pass code was all zeroes
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> becuz the Pres was worried that when the time
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> came, no one would remember anything more
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> complicated.
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I believe you are thinking of the codes used to activate nuclear warheads
via the Permissive Action Link devices.

This article is apparently about the Presidential launch authorization
codes, which are a different thing.

Thanks,
Donald
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