Timothy C. May said:
At 5:55 PM 1/25/96, Rich Salz wrote:
Up until recently (18-30 months ago) NSA employees were only allowed to identify themselves as employees of DoD. It was common knowledge, that unspecific references to Fort Meade meant NSA; and if you saw a P.O. from Procurement Office, Fort Meade, it meant the NSA was buying it.
When I attended Crypto '88, nearly 8 years ago, at least several of the NSA attendees had "National Security Agency" on their name badges. It may be that run-of-the-mill employees still maintain the fiction for public consumption that they are DOD employees, but such was not the case in 1988 at "Crypto."
At the RSA conference last week, there were approximately 10 people from the NSA. Only 2 of those were registered as DOD, the rest were NSA. I mentioned this at lunch to a guy from the NSA, and he said that only oldtimers do the DOD identification anymore. -- Kevin L. Prigge |"Have you ever gotten tired of hearing those UofM Central Computing | ridiculous AT&T commercials claiming credit email: klp@tc.umn.edu | for things that don't even exist yet? 010010011101011001100010| You will." -Emmanuel Goldstein