[cryptography] NSA IDA Cryptological Research Centers

2013-09-29 Thread John Young
The Institute for Defense Analyses, based in Alexandria, VA, is a 50-year partner of NSA. It has two Centers for Communications Research at Princeton, NJ, and La Jolla, CA, both doing cryptological research for NSA: http://www.idaccr.org/ http://www.ccrwest.org/ The latter's web site lists

Re: [cryptography] NSA IDA Cryptological Research Centers

2013-09-29 Thread James Cloos
JY == John Young j...@pipeline.com writes: LJ La Jolla Covering Repository LJ A (v,k,t)-covering design is a collection of k-element subsets, called LJ blocks, of {1,2,...,v}, such that any t-element subset is contained in LJ at least one block. JY What is covering and how does it related to

Re: [cryptography] NSA IDA Cryptological Research Centers

2013-09-29 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 09:43:54AM -0400, John Young wrote: http://www.ccrwest.org/ The latter's web site lists only this offering: La Jolla Covering Repository A (v,k,t)-covering design is a collection of k-element subsets, called blocks, of {1,2,...,v}, such that any t-element subset