Feels like naming coincidence, particularly given that the GCHQ
analogue is named similarly. From The Guardian[0]:
"The NSA's codeword for its decryption program, Bullrun, is taken from
a major battle of the American civil war. Its British counterpart,
Edgehill, is named after the first major engagement of the English
civil war, more than 200 years earlier."
[0]: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-secur...
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:11 PM, grarpamp
On 9/6/13, John Young
wrote: An understated response to the NSA and unidentifed friends treachery:
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/on-nsa.html
More of these expected, many. But who knows, as Green says, all could go back to swell comsec business as usual.
Linked from said blog... http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/05/14/what-is-intelr-secure-key-t...
Bull Mountain Technology ... BULLRUN.
Bullshit naming coincidence or genuine cooperative wordplay? ;) _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
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