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Oh, to be a fly on the wall at Fort Meade. Given the thousands of employees the NSA has working on all aspects of cryptography, there must be countless example
by PhantomGremlin 10y ago
Oh, to be a fly on the wall at Fort Meade.
Given the thousands of employees the NSA has working on all aspects of cryptography, there must be countless examples of this type of investigation. It's integral to traffic analysis and to fingerprinting of cryptosystems.
At least I hope that the NSA does lots of stuff like this. Because if they don't, what does that leave them doing? If the NSA is simply evil and/or incompetent, that's not enough ROI for the US taxpayers.
Unfortunately, NSA work probably remains highly classified for so long that an ex employee would never be able to write about it in technical detail. But I could be wrong? Are there any Inside Baseball books out there revealing the inner workings of NSA spooks?