
Tuesday 8/25/98 12:31 PM Charles R Smith http://www.us.net/softwar/ NSA deputy director Barbara McNamara's wrote me a letter dated 19 August 1998. http://www.nsa.gov:8080/mission.html McNamara DENIED my fee waiver appeal for search for invoices NSA spent on public key chips.
From my inside dealings with NSAs R division and Sandia employees I learned that both had some VERY UNFORTUNATE EXPERIENCES with public key.
I am sending both you and John Young copies of NcNamaras letter. McNamara wrote, This response may be construed as a denial of your appeal. Accordingly, you are hereby advised to your right to seek judicial review of my decision pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4) (B) in the United States District Court in the district in which you reside, in which you have your principal place of business, in which the Agencys records are situated (U.S. District Court of Maryland), or in the District of Columbia. http://www.jya.com/hr105-37.txt
From my case law studies at UNM law library, I HAVE NOT seen any example of anyone suing for a fee waiver denial.
McNamara wrote The key issue I considered in my review is whether disclosure of the information is likely to contribute to the public understanding of the operations or activities of the government. My guess is that NSA has squandered tens of millions of dollars TRYING to build public key chips - like the Cylink 1024. http://www.cylink.com/ Some of NSA's money, I think, was spent at Sandia Labs funding the failed Sandia low- and high-speed public key chips. See Whitfield Diffie, "The First Ten Years of Public Key Cryptography," Proceedings of the IEEE, 76(5), May 1988. referenced at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/nukearse.htm Sandia's public key chips didn't get the same answers, Sandia Ron Kulju told me. KULJU,RONALD J. (505)845-8860 RJKULJU (505)844-9478 0519 http://www.sandia.gov/cgi-bin/emplloc Both NSA and Sandia MUCH TROUBLE building semiconductor devices. I have inside information on NSAs problems from National Semiconductor. National was hired by NSA to help make chips at NSA's facility. Perhaps McNamara opinion should be challenged IN COURT? We have some experience in this endeavor. http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm And may get some recognition http://www.jya.com/chrysler98.htm The Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, now in its sixth year, honors outstanding designers (or design teams). Winners are chosen from across the design disciplines by a judging panel of design leaders. One the selection is made, Chrysler will award $10,000 to each winner (or winning team) at a ceremony in New York in the Fall of 1998. Award winners will be flown to New York for the Award Ceremony. for our efforts. I see that you are trying to gain some VISIBILITY for your encryption product http://www.softwar.net/plight.html. And that you are BIG into the FOIA business too. http://www.softwar.net/softb.html Then TOO you can charge NSA OVER $100 per hour for your efforts should we win. NSA attempting to conceal how much taxpayer money it has squandered is clearly in the public interest. And we have the ABILITY and EXPERTISE to disseminate this information to the public. Perhaps you might be interested in participating in perhaps THE FIRST a FOIA fee waiver lawsuit? Pro se, of course, for both legal and economic reasons. McNamara would be, along with OTHERS at NSA, a NAMED DEFENDANT. On the other hand, perhaps these crypto-related government messes http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm http://caq.com/cryptogate http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm http://www.qainfo.se/~lb/crypto_ag.htm should get SETTLED so that we can all move on to other projects? Later bill