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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: NSA recommendations?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.193520.8206@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:35:20 GMT
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- Does anyone know if the NSA is making any current recommendations to
- U.S. businesses who wish to transmit economically sensitive
- non-defense information to their agents in countries which: a) might
- be considered economically hostile (or at least competitive); b) are
- well endowed with communications intelligence equipment and
- technology.
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- I have in mind specifically any current NSA recommendations to U.S.
- companies making bids on Japanese projects where the U.S. company's
- electronic mail might the the object of cryptographic interest to
- either the Japanese government or to well-endowed Japanese
- competitors.
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- Same question for bids in the former Soviet Union, Korea, France.
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- Does NSA feel DES is appropriate today under such circumstances? Is
- there something else they recommend? One-time pads? Something more
- convenient?
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- Anyone know?
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- Does anyone have an address to write to to ask, if the information
- isn't known to someone here?
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- Replies by e-mail if anyone is uncomfortable giving details in
- a public newsgroup read internationally.
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- Thanks;
-
- --
- David Sternlight
- (pgp 2.0 and ripem public keys available on request)
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