request for leaks: standards for secret (not published) true hardware random number generator requirements used by NSA

coderman coderman at gmail.com
Sun Jan 19 20:56:00 PST 2014


On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 8:49 PM, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> perhaps the only individual[s] who designed and implemented [Suite A...]
> was working on coding for radios lugged by grunts out in fields of
> adventure, now long retired into obscurity forever more...


perhaps it was a team.  i ask only partly in jest; after all, if the
algorithms are intended to be secret themselves, compartmentalizing
the effort in such a way to appear as a pedestrian, otherwise routine
application of the maths.

if you were the NSA and wanted to delegate the task of secret cipher
development, how would you disguise the nature and intent of the work
so assigned?

(does the NSA do a lot of bioinformatics? :)



best regards,
   except to replicants



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