KYU-5, KG-84, KY-54 encryption devices
At 9:19 AM -0600 2/28/01, Aimee Farr wrote:
What are they?
- Aimee
Search engines are the best way to answer such questions. A quick search with Google turns up numerous hits on these devices. (I suggest adding a narrowing word like "encryption" after the name of the device.) One such hit gives a full description of one of these devices: http://webhome.idirect.com/~jproc/crypto/kg84.html And so on. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns
Tim May said:
Search engines are the best way to answer such questions. A quick search with Google turns up numerous hits on these devices. (I suggest adding a narrowing word like "encryption" after the name of the device.)
One such hit gives a full description of one of these devices:
Really? Well, damn. I'll have to try out that Google-thing sometime.... I can't figure out if you're irked by amateurish elicitation tactics, or if you're trying to give me lessons in how to do better. -Aimee
At 12:06 PM -0600 2/28/01, Aimee Farr wrote:
Tim May said:
Search engines are the best way to answer such questions. A quick search with Google turns up numerous hits on these devices. (I suggest adding a narrowing word like "encryption" after the name of the device.)
One such hit gives a full description of one of these devices:
Really? Well, damn. I'll have to try out that Google-thing sometime....
Yes, you've said similar things in the past. And yet you ask very basic, easily-answered questions, questions best-answered by spending a minute or two entering words into a search engine of your choice. (In the age of the Web, a page which has photos, descriptions, etc. of such a device is worth a lot more than someone giving vaguely-remembered comments.)
I can't figure out if you're irked by amateurish elicitation tactics, or if you're trying to give me lessons in how to do better.
We used to hear the expression "Look it up." When a child asks what a word means, "look it up." When someone asks where Borneo is located, "look it up." When a list member asks what a KG-84 is, "look it up." --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns
At 09:19 AM 2/28/01 -0600, Aimee Farr wrote:
What are they?
.mil names for en/decrypting boxes; the KG is a key generator IIRC. The encryptors often use classified algorithms and use hardware 'dongles' (bit carriers) to key them. ....... Unbeknown to the latter, Marks had already cracked General de Gaulle's private cypher in a spare moment on the lavatory.
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