Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 10:37:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Pat Farrell" <pfarrell@netcom.com>
This is strange. I see no difference between somehost.nsa.gov and docmaster.ncsc.mil ncsc is nothing but a public front for NSA. It is located at Ft Meade, etc. This is not news.
There's a difference. docmaster.ncsc.mil gives guest accounts to all sorts of private security consultants -- perhaps to dilute/mask any NSA presence. Everyone I've talked to from dockmaster has been non-NSA.
Why wouldn't they be willing to post [...]
The answer I was given was that anything coming from a host named "nsa" would be taken as an official statement from the NSA (remember the alleged loose cannon who tried to tell the IEEE not to have an international meeting on crypto?). - Carl