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| In relation to the above, it is worth noting that both the initial
owner of Omnisec, Urs Ingold, and the first director, Pierre Schmid,
are mentioned in the CIA documents about Operation RUBICON, as being
well-known by the American intelligence community,
whatever that means [8]. Another name that turns up in relation to Omnisec, is Ueli Maurer, Professor at the ETH in Zürich, and between 1988 and 2015 technical advisor at Omnisec. Although he previously denied it, he now confirms that he was approached by the NSA in 1989, but had turned them down [10][11]. Further suggestions that he and/or his colleages might have cooperated with the intelligence services, are found in the Operation RUBICON documents [8]. In 1993, shortly after release of Crypto AG sales representative Hans Bühler from an Iranian prison, 3 the Swiss Bundespolizei (BuPo) investigated the allegations that Crypto AG equipment might have been rigged by foreign intelligence services. Swiss military officials subsequently informed the CIA that they had: |
| They also informed the CIA that, should the investigation be subcontracted
to the ETH in Zürich, they could handle four of the five
cryptomathematicians who could become involved in the investigation.
In other words: the ETH was in their pocket. - https://cryptomuseum.com/manuf/omnisec/index.htm |