"S1" encryption system (was: this looked like it might be interesting)

Matt Blaze mab at crypto.com
Wed Aug 9 18:08:53 PDT 1995



>On a fair number of occassions I have been told that federal type folks
>have made statements to the effect that there is no such thing as a "TOP
>SECRET" classification of US government docs. Since really secret things
>tend to get neither confirmed nor denied, I am inclined to believe this.
>Thus SECRET is the top classification in today's government/military. If
>anybody knows otherwise I would be interested in the information.
>
>JWS

Well, I don't hold (and have never held) a clearance, but I've seen
declasified/sanitized documents that have crossed out "TOP SECRET"
markings all over them.

-matt






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