NSA Publication Indices Declassified

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 26, 2006 @01:33PM from the waiting-game dept.

Schneier is reporting that a 3 year old freedom of information act request has finally come to fruition showing us indices from the NSA Technical Journal, Cryptographic Quarterly, Crytologic Spectrum, and Cryptologic Almanac. From the article: "The request took more than three years for them to process and declassify -- sadly, not atypical -- and during the process they asked if he would accept the indexes in lieu of the tables of contents pages: specifically, the cumulative indices that included all the previous material in the earlier indices. He agreed, and got them last month. Consider these bibliographic tools as stepping stones. If you want an article, send a FOIA request for it. Send a FOIA request for a dozen. There's a lot of stuff here that would help elucidate the early history of the agency and some interesting cryptographic topics."

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Re:a real WTF moment... by uufnord · 2006-09-26 15:12 · Score: 5, Interesting

Actually, it's not.

Here's a link to Crank, Nuts, and Screwballs:
https://www.cia.gov/csi/kent_csi/docs/v09i3a09p_00 01.htm

"Key to the Extraterrestrial Messages" hasn't been declassified. However, in a different paper, "The Intelligence Revolution and the Future", the CIA has this to say:

"Should project SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) ever receive a signal from outer space, there will be yet another role for intelligence services, not in arming the lasers, but in trying to decode the messages."

You can see this link for that quote: https://www.cia.gov/csi/kent_csi/docs/v37i4a04p_00 06.htm

It looks like they got the messages, AND THEY FOUND THE KEY TO DECODE THEM!

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