Perry E. Metzger wrote: > This is a couple of weeks old, but it appears that, by accident, a lot > of information on the targets and methods being used for > US/Australian/NZ SIGINT about 20 years ago has come to light as the > result of the release of a late New Zealand Prime Minister's papers. > > http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/print/0,1478,3540743a6005,00.html > > Among other things: > > The report lists the Tangimoana station's targets in 1985-86 as > "French South Pacific civil, naval and military; French Antarctic > civil; Vietnamese diplomatic; North Korean diplomatic; Egyptian > diplomatic; Soviet merchant and scientific research shipping; Soviet > Antarctic civil. Soviet fisheries; Argentine naval; Non-Soviet > Antarctic civil; East German diplomatic; Japanese diplomatic; > Philippine diplomatic; South African Armed Forces; Laotian diplomatic > (and) UN diplomatic." > > The station intercepted 165,174 messages from these targets, "an > increase of approximately 37,000 on the 84/85 figure. Reporting on the > Soviet target increased by 20% on the previous year".
recent posting and glimpse of public key crypto 20 years ago http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#30 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]