From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 17:28:43 +0800
To: koontz@maspar.com (David G. Koontz)
Subject: Re: NSA advanced knowledge
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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