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Re: Army "Basic Cryptanalysis" field manual legal status?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mctylr@privacy.nb.ca)
Wed Feb 17 10:07:10 1999
From: mctylr@privacy.nb.ca
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 01:59:28 -0400
To: "Daniel J. Frasnelli" <dfrasnel@csee.wvu.edu>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Daniel J. Frasnelli wrote:
> to be a scanned-in copy of a Department of the Army cryptanalyst field
...
> The document is Field Manual No. 34-40-2 (FM 34-40-2) and has
> "Headquarters. Department of the Army. Washington, DC, 13 September 1990"
> on the first table of contents page. Title is "Basic Cryptanalysis",
The field manuals have been declassified. There are widely available, in
hardcover or soft cover from companies such as Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, and
even Canadian (evil foreigners :) booksellers.
ISBN: 189160600X or ISBN: 089412272X
Here's the declassification notice,
<http://www.und.nodak.edu/org/crypto/crypto/army.field.manual/memo.gif>
and the list of declassified manuals, including FM 34-40-2,
<http://www.und.nodak.edu/org/crypto/crypto/army.field.manual/list.gif>.
Excerpt:
Restrictive distribution statements should be changed to Statement A, "Approved
for pubic release, distribution is unlimited."
Thus to the best of my knowledge, FM 34-40-2 is in the public domain.
The initial public online version was from an US military web/ftp? site, I
believe actually a ship, circa 1997.
