At 10:56 PM 1/12/01 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
David's suggestion makes sense to me. But if NONSTOP is a codeword, it would be classified at least secret, and manufacturers of such products would be discouraged by their customers at NSA from labeling their products with such a name.
-Declan
I agree... this remains a problem with my thesis. Perhaps it is from an earlier time, before they randomly chose short words or word-pairs from lists as opaque labels? I just finished Rowlett's _Magic_ and in there, someone had to point out to the SIS cryptanalysts that you shouldn't refer to what the ca. WWII Japanese called "Cipher Machine, type A" in English as the "type A machine". Thus their arbitrary designators ("red", "purple") were chosen. ------ The great thing about humans is they can come up with a theory for anything.