There was speculation at the time, however, that the NSA has deliberately reduced the key size from the original value of 112 bits ( in IBM's Lucifer cipher ) or 64 bits ( in one of the versions of what was adopted as DES ) so as to limit the strength of encryption available to non-US users.

The NSA has major computing resources and a large budget ; some thought that 56 bits was NSA-breakable in the late ' 70s.

The NSA has its own exit off Maryland Route 295 South labeled " NSA Employees Only ".

For algorithms that NSA has participated in the development of, see NSA cryptography.

This account, however, has come into sharp dispute with an internal NSA historical study which stated on page 17:

Re-enfranchisement of intelligence officers since World War II to minimize national security concerns has been major source of Executive Branch support for moving intelligence agency headquarters such as the CIA, NSA, NRO, CSS, and NIMA headquarters to neighboring counties with voting rights.

It has been repeatedly alleged that in 1997 the United States National Security Agency ( NSA ) had backdoored the export version of Lotus Notes, but this is a mis-characterization of what actually happened.

ARDA itself has been shifted from the NSA to the Disruptive Technology Office ( run by to the Director of National Intelligence ).

Friedman has been inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame and there is a building named after William and Elizebeth at the NSA complex at Fort George G. Meade in Maryland.

Wayne Madsen, who had been a communications security analyst with the NSA in the mid-1980s, has been quoted as saying that he believes the memo is authentic.

On June 29, 2006, a press release for AT & T stated, " The U. S. Department of Justice has stated that AT & T may neither confirm nor deny AT & T's participation in the alleged NSA program because doing so would cause ' exceptionally grave harm to national security ' and would violate both civil and criminal statutes.

Whilst the academic study of trust relationships and systems has long been the forte of intelligence services such as the NSA, the growth of the Internet in the 1990s and the contemporary declassification of related knowledge allowed for greater public discussion of the potential for anonymous banking services by groups such as the cryptoanarchists and cypherpunks.

Microsoft denied that the NSA has access to the _NSAKEY secret key.

Thus the NSA has effectively removed export control of " strong " crypto from Windows.

She manages, however, to retrieve the rest of the data, revealing to the NSA that Nikoladze has secretly been waging an on-going ethnic-cleansing campaign in Azerbaijan.

The NSA notices that a Georgian military cell that has been stationed on an oil rig in the Caspian Sea has been exchanging data with the Georgian Presidential Palace, suggesting it to be of some importance ; and thus Fisher is sent to retrieve the data.

Using the encryption key, the NSA discovers that Nikoladze has been using a network of unconventional relays to communicate with the Georgian military cells.

Their concern was well-founded: subsequent history has shown not only that NSA actively intervened with IBM and NBS to shorten the key size, but also that the short key size enabled exactly the kind of massively parallel key crackers that Hellman and Diffie sketched out, which when ultimately built outside the classified world, made it clear that DES was insecure and obsolete.

Their concern was well-founded: subsequent history has shown not only that NSA actively intervened with IBM and NBS to shorten the key size, but also that the short key size enabled exactly the kind of massively parallel key crackers that Hellman and Diffie sketched out.

According to a 1965 NSA report, " RYE has made it possible for the agency to locate many more potentially exploitable cryptographic systems and ` bust ' situations.

Marshall has also discovered how hard it is to lie to those he loves, having to keep his job at APO a secret even from his wife ( who appears to no longer be working for the NSA by the fourth season ).

He had not been placed on terrorist watch lists, nor did the CIA or NSA alert the FBI, Customs and Immigration, or local police and enforcement agencies.

Crews associated with NSA missions have been involved in a number of dangerous and deadly situations.

According to James Bamford, the NSA had picked up communications of al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi back in 1999, but had been hampered by internal bureaucratic conflicts between itself and the CIA, and did not do a full analysis of the information it passed on to the agency.

It was claimed that during this period the NSA had been eavesdropping Thurmond's conversations, using the British part of the ECHELON project.

For instance, programs such as Carnivore and NarusInsight have been used by the FBI and NSA to eavesdrop on the systems of internet service providers.

Carter believed that by making the NSA chairman of only one of the two committees, he would prevent the NSC from being the overwhelming influence on foreign policy decisions it had been under Kissinger's chairmanship during the Nixon administration.

The NSA have been reverse-engineering the technology left behind from the crash, but was still unsuccessful at replicating a warp drive for faster-than-light travel.

The result was that the newer version of Lotus Notes provided stronger protection against industrial espionage than any previous version had been allowed to provide, and it provided no less protection against decryption by the NSA than the previous versions had given.

From his camp, Che and his forces attempted to overthrow the government, but ended up pulling out in less than a year since the National Security Agency ( NSA ) had been monitoring him the entire time and aided government forces in ambushing his guerrillas.

Friedman and his wife donated their archives to the George C. Marshall Library, which also had been raided by NSA security.

IBM 701 competed with Remington Rand's ERA 1103 in the scientific computation market, which had been developed for the NSA, so held secret until permission to market it was obtained in 1953.

The various NSA compartments have been simplified ; all but the most sensitive compartments are marked " CCO ", meaning " handle through COMINT channels only ".

: The original version of this article appears to have been copied from the NSA Hall of Honor entry for Agnes Meyer Driscoll, which is in the public domain.

Stone is later told to recover a hard drive from the NSA bunker, while trying to escape Agent Kyle Christopher Steele ( Scott Speedman ) at the same time, and is rescued by Shavers.

To complicate matters, the NSA has arrived, and is trying to keep people from getting near the library.

Because of the way the crypto verification occurs, users can easily eliminate or replace the NSA key from the operating system without modifying any of Microsoft's original

In 1976, after consultation with the National Security Agency ( NSA ), the NBS eventually selected a slightly modified version, which was published as an official Federal Information Processing Standard ( FIPS ) for the United States in 1977.

Accordingly, on 15 May 1973, after consulting with the NSA, NBS solicited proposals for a cipher that would meet rigorous design criteria.

IBM kept some secrets, as Coppersmith explains: " After discussions with NSA, it was decided that disclosure of the design considerations would reveal the technique of differential cryptanalysis, a powerful technique that could be used against many ciphers.

For the GCHQ this means that it shares information with, and gets information from, the National Security Agency ( NSA ) in the US.

The NSA established the EKMS program to supply electronic key to COMSEC devices in securely and timely manner, and to provide COMSEC managers with an automated system capable of ordering, generation, production, distribution, storage, security accounting, and access control.

The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor ( abbreviated NSA, or sometimes APNSA or ANSA to avoid confusion with the abbreviation of the National Security Agency ), is a senior official in the Executive Office of the President who serves as the chief advisor, stationed in the White House, to the President of the United States on national security issues.

The OPEN LOOK version of the FrameMaker desktop publishing program, developed by Frame Technology Corp with funding mainly from Sun Microsystems and NSA, was one of the few commercial products that ran on NeWS.

* ZR: Intelligence intercept program of CIA Staff D ops, the group that worked directly with the NSA ( National Security Agency ).

President Carter chose Zbigniew Brzezinski for the position of National Security Adviser ( NSA ) because he wanted an assertive intellectual at his side to provide him with day-to-day advice and guidance on foreign policy decisions.

In July 1995 the U. S. 5th Fleet was established in the Persian Gulf with its headquarters at NSA Bahrain in Manama.

* Interviewing with an Intelligence Agency First person account of NSA interview ( including polygraph )

Under an agreement with the US government, Lotus was allowed to start exporting 64 bit keys, so long as 24 bits of each key were recoverable using a special key issued by Lotus to the NSA.

( US export regulations were changed in 2001, so current versions of Lotus products are able to use longer keys and they no longer provide NSA with access to any key bits.

Some government agencies ( e. g., NSA ) require that all disk drives be physically pulverized when they are discarded, and in some cases, chemically treated with corrosives before or after.

Wayne Madsen, who was a communications security analyst with the NSA in the 1980s, believes the memo is authentic and believes the memo was aimed at other nations who are part of the ECHELON intelligence network, namely Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the UK.

* Scott Shane and Tom Bowman with contribution from Laura Sullivan, " New book on NSA sheds light on secrets: U. S. terror plan was Cuba invasion pretext ," Baltimore Sun, 24 April 2001.

" BellSouth, which announced its merger with AT & T on March 5, denies releasing any records to the NSA and requested the newspaper retract claims in its story asserting BellSouth " provided phone records of its customers to NSA.

In April 2010, Thomas Andrews Drake, an official with the National Security Agency ( NSA ), was indicted under the Act for alleged willful retention of national defense information.