From: paul@poboy.b17c.ingr.com (Paul Robichaux)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 94 07:33:16 PDT
To: ifarqhar@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Ian Farquhar)
Subject: Re: Supposed NSA turncoat reveals monitoring of anon remailers? >pshah!<
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> On the subject of network monitoring, Bruce posted a copy of an NSA
> technology transfer which described a database searching algorithm
> that looked fairly sophisticated (I don't have the actual posting
> handy.)  Did anyone (Bruce?) obtain a copy of the algorithm, and if
> so, were there any distribution limitations on it?  It looked like
> just the thing that the NSA would use as their "watchword" scanner,
> and even if not, it looked like a very useful design all the same.

I took the time to contact the "office symbol" listed in the NSA
announcement. The NSAoid's name was Dennis Sysko. He was a little
nonplussed that Bruce had posted the announcement.

I was required to write a letter to them, on Intergraph letterhead,
requesting further information; after receiving it, Sysko promised to
send me an NDA that I could sign and return to get further
information.

Someone else posted in t.p.c that they'd sent in a letter and been
told that NSA would not license this technology to individuals. That
sort of echoes the argument that there are some munitions appropriate
for government but not for individuals.

- -Paul

- -- 
Paul Robichaux, KD4JZG      | "Information is the currency of democracy."
perobich@ingr.com           |     - some old guy named Thomas Jefferson
	       Of course I don't speak for Intergraph.
	       

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