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Re: A glimpse of SIGINT 20 years ago...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Thu Jan 26 17:45:18 2006
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:56:40 -0700
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
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Cc: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
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Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> This is a couple of weeks old, but it appears that, by accident, a lot
> of information on the targets and methods being used for
> US/Australian/NZ SIGINT about 20 years ago has come to light as the
> result of the release of a late New Zealand Prime Minister's papers.
>
> http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/print/0,1478,3540743a6005,00.html
>
> Among other things:
>
> The report lists the Tangimoana station's targets in 1985-86 as
> "French South Pacific civil, naval and military; French Antarctic
> civil; Vietnamese diplomatic; North Korean diplomatic; Egyptian
> diplomatic; Soviet merchant and scientific research shipping; Soviet
> Antarctic civil. Soviet fisheries; Argentine naval; Non-Soviet
> Antarctic civil; East German diplomatic; Japanese diplomatic;
> Philippine diplomatic; South African Armed Forces; Laotian diplomatic
> (and) UN diplomatic."
>
> The station intercepted 165,174 messages from these targets, "an
> increase of approximately 37,000 on the 84/85 figure. Reporting on the
> Soviet target increased by 20% on the previous year".
recent posting and glimpse of public key crypto 20 years ago
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#30
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