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Subject:    Re: William Friedman's 1955 Crypto AG visit reports draft and final redactions
From:       Steven Schear <schear.steve () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-07-30 15:49:56
Message-ID: CAMyHXXcVvnXdMasuzL8LK26xuAbFKNmVsUzPQQcFPovVyrbpOg () mail ! gmail ! com
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During the early 90s I worked at Cylink, a Crypto AG competitor. We too
received a NSA visit about weakening products sold to certain clients
(e.g., so-called narco-terrorists). I and the other directors were told of
this (because we had legal responsibilities and liabilities) at a meeting.
I assume we made the changes requested (e.g., weakening the RNG to NSA
specifications). The special units were sold through a selected distributor
in Louisiana (probably also a NSA contractor).

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:52 PM, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:

> William Friedman's 1955 draft Crypto AG visit report shows text
> redacted in final version and vice versa. Two versions compared:
>
> https://cryptome.org/2015/07/nsa-crypto-ag-compared.pdf
> <https://t.co/YYfkpltTYc> (20MB)
>

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<div dir="ltr">During the early 90s I worked at Cylink, a Crypto AG competitor. We \
too received a NSA visit about weakening products sold to certain clients (e.g., \
so-called narco-terrorists). I and the other directors were told of this (because we \
had legal responsibilities and liabilities) at a meeting. I assume we made the \
changes requested (e.g., weakening the RNG to NSA specifications). The special units \
were sold through a selected distributor in Louisiana (probably also a NSA \
contractor). <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, \
Jul 30, 2015 at 2:52 PM, John Young <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:jya@pipeline.com" target="_blank">jya@pipeline.com</a>&gt;</span> \
wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px \
#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div>
William Friedman&#39;s 1955 draft Crypto AG visit report shows text <br>
redacted in final version and vice versa. Two versions compared:<br><br>
<a href="https://t.co/YYfkpltTYc" target="_blank">
https://cryptome.org/2015/07/nsa-crypto-ag-compared.pdf</a>
(20MB)</div>

</blockquote></div><br></div>



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