Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper

[Peter Fairbrother]

> John Young at jya@pipeline.com wrote:

> A singular type of communication that the NSA is permitted by
> law 

Is a USSID law? If not, what law are you referring to?

> to collect and retain indefinitely, no matter the source, even
> if the sources are otherwise proscribed communications of US
> persons, is cryptographic data.

What is cryptographic data? Do you mean encrypted data?[snip]

> These musings come from a 1993 edition of NSA's USSID 18:
> 
> http://cryptome.org/nsa-ussid18.htm
> 
> Presumably end-points of end-to-end encryption will be easily
> identified for black bag jobs of the CIA/NSA's SIS teams and
> other nations' thieves -- or is it other nations' master bandits
> targets the US be breaking into just behind.

???

-- Peter