Citation for NSA Type III & IV Crypto products
Mark O. Aldrich
maldrich at grci.com
Wed Aug 14 12:04:22 PDT 1996
C'punks:
Most who are familiar with the Fed's crypto products are aware that the
NSA categorizes crypto products by "type." Type I is specified as being
for classified protections (and relying upon classified key) and Type II
being for SBU/other (with unclassified-only key). I recall, however, that
there were also categories called Type III and Type IV. I think that Type
III had to do with industry use, with Government-generated key. Type IV I
can't recall at all. Now, I can't find the citation where these things
were described. The EPL cites only Type I & II, Dockmaster has proven of
no use, and the search engines can't find anything on the Net.
Does anyone recall where a discussion of these types can be found?
TIA.
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