From: "Stephen Cobb, CISSP" <stephen@iu.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 21:09:33 -0800 (PST)
To: Ernest Hua <Hua@teralogic-inc.com>
Subject: Re: Cylink + NSA
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At 02:24 PM 2/27/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Did anyone notice that Cylink just got a new VP of product development?
>Did anyone notice that this person just retired from the NSA?
>Care to guess the name and former rank?

Ern

For more about NSA + Cylink, see The Puzzle Palace : A Report on America's Most Secret Agency, James Bamford, Viking Press, 1983, ISBN: 0140067485. Also, The Stephen Cobb Complete Guide to PC&LAN Security, TAB-Windcrest-McGraw-Hill, 1991, ISBN: 0830632808, page 268.

Also, this was announced in a press release in January:
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Former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency Brings Security Leadership to Strengthen Customer Relationships for Cylink and Drive Product Management

Cylink Corp. (NASDAQ:CYLK), a leading worldwide supplier of network security solutions, today names William P. Crowell Vice President, Product Management and Strategy. Crowell, recently retired from the United States National Security Agency (NSA) as Deputy Director, will partner with the senior management of Cylink customers worldwide to assist them in developing and implementing strategic business plans and solutions to meet their network security needs. He also will be responsible for Product Management of all Cylink offerings. Crowell brings 17 years of executive management experience in both private industry and government to Cylink. In his previous position at the NSA, he served as Deputy Director for 3.5 years and was chief operations officer of the Agency, guiding and directing the development of strategies and polices, and serving as the principal advisor to the Director. He has extensive technical and practical knowledge of the technologies needed to achieve integrated network security, including encryption technology, digital signatures, public key management, and infrastructure issues. He also has experience managing research and development projects, and programs associated with information systems deployment. 
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Stephen
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