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NSA taps universities for info security studies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon May 17 15:14:59 1999
To: cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 17 May 1999 15:10:53 -0400
From Edupage via Dave Farber's "Interesting People" list:
The National Security Agency on Tuesday announced that seven
universities had been selected as Centers of Academic Excellence
in Information Assurance Education. NSA, which has broad
influence on U.S. encryption policy, is responding to a Clinton
administration directive to seek non-governmental research and
information on critical infrastructure issues. NSA says the
centers will become "focal points for recruiting, and may create
a climate to encourage independent research in information
assurance." The seven universities--James Madison, George Mason,
Idaho State, Iowa State, Purdue, Idaho, and the University of
California at Davis--will be formally named at an IBM information
security systems conference on May 25-29. (EE Times Online 05/12/99)
