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Re: [Cryptography] TAO, NSA crypto backdoor program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ianG)
Thu Jan 2 11:42:33 2014
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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 10:10:26 +0300
From: ianG <iang@iang.org>
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On 2/01/14 00:30 AM, Lodewijk andr=E9 de la porte wrote:
> The question is whether or not it's naive to think
> it's just the NSA, it should be the CIA too sometimes. Perhaps even a
> company on a rare occasion.
It's a CSS catalogue, from the division that is responsible for securing =
all the government agencies. I am guessing that the products are =
available for anyone who's got a close relationship. Definitely CIA and =
military, especially special forces. The NSA is supposed to be a =
non-active entity, it doesn't do the interventions, it more or less has =
to work in concert with others, but its incidental expertise in high =
tech makes it by accident the most likely partner in developing the tech.
So this catalogue probably goes to all Homeland agencies as well, think =
DEA, FBI, USSS, etc, although they would likely not be given the best =
toys except in high profile cases.
It is interesting to look at the classifications as well. The GSM copy =
equipment is Secret whereas most of the other stuff is TS. Only a few =
of the toys are 5-eyes, most is REL TO US only. But I'd say that there =
is a lot of quiet sharing goes on with GCHQ and maybe others than is =
indicated by the REL classification...
iang
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