[47953] in Cypherpunks
Re: NSA advanced knowledge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Jan 25 01:36:27 1996
To: koontz@maspar.com (David G. Koontz)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jan 1996 22:09:23 PST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 01:27:01 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
David G. Koontz writes:
> >
> > ... This Hellman-Diffie proposal was apparently
> > anticipated by a similar version developed by the
> > National Security Agency (NSA) a decade earlier.
> > (p. 164)
[...]
> It was originally called FIREFLY or somesuch thing. I may have some of
> the early papers. (The same ones leading to the statement in the book).
>
> This should predate the STU-II to STU-III transition.
I thought that FIREFLY was just the NSA's name for the STS variant
that they use for STU-IIs and STU-IIIs.
Perry
