U.S. COMSEC History from 1973
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furrbearFrom Bruce Schneier/Governmentattic:
Some of the redactions may be easily guessable, I fancy "iron curtain", "embassy", and later "Russia" on page 97. Why do they even bother? This would be a good exercise for some student to write a program doing a dictionary attack on the text using the properties of the used font.
Freshly declassified and a rather interesting read:I like the informal style of the document, it's an easy read, even if one is not an intelligence buff. In the first volume, all but the first and last chapters are redacted (what is left is an introduction and TEMPEST). The second volume is more intact, and has some history DES, and a view on public key cryptography before affordable general computers. Certainly other things of which I don't realize the significance...
A History of U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I and II, 1973)
David G. Boak Lectures, National Security Agency (NSA) (PDF)
Some of the redactions may be easily guessable, I fancy "iron curtain", "embassy", and later "Russia" on page 97. Why do they even bother? This would be a good exercise for some student to write a program doing a dictionary attack on the text using the properties of the used font.
