NSA advanced knowledge
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Thu Jan 25 01:28:43 PST 1996
David G. Koontz writes:
> >
> > ... This Hellman-Diffie proposal was apparently
> > anticipated by a similar version developed by the
> > National Security Agency (NSA) a decade earlier.
> > (p. 164)
[...]
> It was originally called FIREFLY or somesuch thing. I may have some of
> the early papers. (The same ones leading to the statement in the book).
>
> This should predate the STU-II to STU-III transition.
I thought that FIREFLY was just the NSA's name for the STS variant
that they use for STU-IIs and STU-IIIs.
Perry
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