Arnold G. Reinhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Army actually has a training course (from 1990) on-line that
describes such a system in detail. The cipher system, called DRYAD is
covered in
https://hosta.atsc.eustis.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/accp/is1100/ch4.htm
.
Your description fits, it
At 2:15 PM -0500 4/1/03, Ian Grigg wrote:
Some comments from about a decade ago.
The way it used to work in the Army (that I
was in) within a battalion, is that there was
a little code book, with a sheet for a 6 hour
stretch. Each sheet has a simple matrix for
encoding letters, etc. Everyone had
Eric Rescorla wrote:
John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Remember, the cypherpunks ... secured any Web traffic
Credit where it's due. Netscape was responsible for this.
Only for the client side (and the protocol, of course).
Cheers,
Ben.
--
http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:38:29PM -0500, reusch wrote:
| Via the Cryptome, http://www.cryptome.org/, RU sure, look
| at http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm.
|
| I'm amazed at their claims of radio interception. One would
| expect that all US military communications, even trivial
reusch[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Via the Cryptome, http://www.cryptome.org/, RU sure, look
at http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm.
I'm amazed at their claims of radio interception. One would
expect that all US military communications, even trivial ones,
are
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, reusch wrote:
I'm amazed at their claims of radio interception. One would
expect that all US military communications, even trivial ones,
Trivial ones are voice radio. Nontrivially to encrypt (mil people tend to
be conservative), unlike teletype (I've used NEMP-proof
At 7:38 PM -0500 3/30/03, reusch wrote:
Via the Cryptome, http://www.cryptome.org/, RU sure, look
at http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm.
I showed this link to a friend who fixes helicopters for the
Army/Marines. He was incredulous at first, but then said, Oh, they
probably just
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:38:29PM -0500, reusch wrote:
I'm amazed at their claims of radio interception. One would
expect that all US military communications, even trivial ones,
are strongly encrypted, given the ease of doing this. Someone,
more well informed, please reassure me that
I'm amazed at their claims of radio interception.
1. Look for plaintext. This was rule #1 stated by Robert Morris
Sr. in his lecture to the annual Crypto conference after retiring as
NSA's chief scientist. You'd be amazed how much of it is floating
around out there, even in military
At 12:51 PM 3/31/03 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:38:29PM -0500, reusch wrote:
| Via the Cryptome, http://www.cryptome.org/, RU sure, look
| at http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm.
|
| I'm amazed at their claims of radio interception. One would
| expect
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The real problem is that flaky
encrypted comms are a tactical problem so it is often
better to use clear comms when time is the issue. Not too
helpful to know what's about to happen if you can't do
anything about it anyway.
--
This is a
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 01:17:43PM -0500, Peter Wayner wrote:
| He went on to talk about crypto as if it was something like fuel or
| food. He said, They probably loaded up 4 or 5 days of crypto at the
| beginning, but then they had to turn it off after the supply lines
| got muddled.
|
| So
reusch wrote:
Via the Cryptome, http://www.cryptome.org/, RU sure, look
at http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm.
I'm amazed at their claims of radio interception. One would
expect that all US military communications, even trivial ones,
are strongly encrypted, given the ease of
John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Remember, the cypherpunks ... secured any Web traffic
Credit where it's due. Netscape was responsible for this.
-Ekr
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[Eric Rescorla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rtfm.com/
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 02:59:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am much more concerned about the
apparent lack of good IFF (missile batteries lighting up
the RAF plane that they then shot down; the USAF plane that
reacted to being lit up by firing at and destroying the
ground radar;
At 2:10 PM -0500 3/31/03, reusch wrote:
...
Nosing around on the same site, one finds
How military radio communications are intercepted
http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news071.htm
Searching for SINCGARS indicates that all US military radios have
encryption capabilities, which can be turned
Eric Rescorla wrote:
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 23:42
To: John Gilmore
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Russia Intercepts US Military Communications?
John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Remember, the cypherpunks ... secured any Web traffic
Credit where it's due
, 2003 13:18
To: reusch; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Russia Intercepts US Military Communications?
At 7:38 PM -0500 3/30/03, reusch wrote:
Via the Cryptome, http://www.cryptome.org/, RU sure, look
at http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm.
I showed this link to a friend who fixes
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