National Security Agency/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• United States intelligence community [r]: The United States' intelligence agencies coordinated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. ^[e]
• U.S. Department of Defense [r]: one of more than a dozen U.S. executive-managed government agencies; this one administers the military forces of the United States, and their supporting civil servants. ^[e]
• Signals intelligence [r]: the practice of acquiring information through monitoring the electromagnetic signals deliberately trasmitted by an opponent, including communications (COMINT) and non-communications electronics such as radar (ELINT). ^[e]
• Information Security [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Director of National Intelligence [r]: Prior to the attacks of 9/11, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was the nominal head of the United States Intelligence Community, following 9/11 a more senior position was created, with a measure of actual authority over those agencies ^[e]

Subtopics

• CLIPPER [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Data Encryption Standard [r]: A block cipher specification issued by the U.S. government in 1976, intended for sensitive but unclassified data. It is now obsolescent, succeeded by the Advanced Encryption Standard, but still used in commercial systems. ^[e]
• Director, National Security Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• William Friedman [r]: Possibly the greatest cryptologist in history, he pioneered the application of mathematics to cryptanalysis and built the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Service technical base. ^[e]
• JWICS [r]: A military and intelligence communications system approved for classified information designated collateral TOP SECRET, as well as any information in a compartmented control system such as Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) or Special Access Program (SAP) ^[e]
• KG-13 [r]: A 1960s-vintage bulk encryption device, a key generator designed by the National Security Agency, for low-speed data streams; codenamed PONTUS ^[e]
• KIV-7 [r]: A National Security Agency link and packet encryption device for two 100 Mbps serial interfaces ^[e]
• SKIPJACK [r]: Add brief definition or description
• TSEC- [r]: The alphanumeric designation system for communications security (COMSEC) equipment under the control of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) ^[e]
• TACLANE [r]: A family, designated TSEC/KG-175, of bulk encryption devices specified by the National Security Agency, which work with high-speed IEEE 802.3/Ethernet interfaces ^[e]
• TROJAN SPIRIT [r]: A U.S. military communications system for handling the most highly classified intelligence information in field headquarters, which also provides field units with connectivity to worldwide high-security networks ^[e]

Other related topics

• AN- [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Advanced Encryption Standard [r]: A US government standard issued in 2002 for a stronger block cipher to succeed the earlier Data Encryption Standard. ^[e]
• C.A. Ruppersberger [r]: U.S. Representative (D-Maryland); Appropriations Committee: Subcommittees on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Homeland Security, Legislative Branch; House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Chairman,Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence (National Security Agency is in his district), Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis, and Counterintelligence and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations ^[e]
• Classified information [r]: Material collected or created by a government that is subject to limitations on its release to the general public and may have penalties for its unauthorized release. ^[e]
  • Compartmented control system [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Committee for State Security [r]: Usually known as the KGB, one of Organs of State Security of the Soviet Union, with extensive responsibilities in intelligence (information gathering), border security, counterintelligence and suppression of dissent; split up in the Russian Federation with counterintelligence in the FSB and foreign intelligence in the SVR ^[e]
• Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Communications Security Establishment [r]: Add brief definition or description
• FASTLANE [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Government Communications Headquarters [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Goverment Communications Security Bureau [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gulf of Tonkin incident [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Information operations [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Intelligence collection management [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Measurement and signature intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Reconnaissance Office [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Security Act of 1947 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Security Agency and Southeast Asia, 1954-1961 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operations security [r]: Add brief definition or description
• RC-135 COMBAT SENT [r]: Add brief definition or description
• RC-135 RIVET JOINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Signals intelligence from 1954 to 1979 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Signals intelligence from 1990 to the present [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Terrorism and U.S. Intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tet Offensive [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Traffic analysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Warrantless surveillance [r]: Add brief definition or description