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NSA encryption by type of application
Five generations of NSA encryption
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Overview
- National Security Agency
- US government
- Encryption
- Classified information Classified information in the United States
- Cipher devices Cipher device
- Rotor machines Rotor machine
- Punched card
- Keys Key (cryptography)
- Vacuum tube
- Black boxes Black box (systems)
- Blackers Blacker (security)
- Plaintext
- Ciphertext
- Electrical connectors Electrical connector
- Key fill Fill device
- Zeroize Zeroisation
- Classified information
- AN/PRC-148
- AN/PRC-152
- Cryptosystems Cryptosystem
- Type-1 Type 1 encryption
- Skipjack Skipjack (cipher)
- AES Advanced Encryption Standard
- Encryptor Encrypting
- AlliedSignal
- KG-84
- HAIPIS HAIPE
Security factors
- COMSEC
- INFOSEC Information security
- Confidentiality
- Authentication
- Nonrepudiation
- Traffic analysis
- Link encryption
- Key management
- Benign fill Benign fill?action=edit&redlink=1
- Clipper chip
- Key escrow
- TEMPEST Tempest (codename)
- Tamper resistance
- Tamper-evident
- Self-destruct
- Mean time between failures
- Electromagnetic pulse
- Nuclear explosion
Five generations of NSA encryption
- World War II
- SIGABA
- KL-7
- Cryptoperiod
- GMT
- 5-UCO
- Linear-feedback shift registers Linear-feedback shift register
- Walker spy ring
- Integrated circuits Integrated circuit
- Punched paper tape Punched tape
- KOI-18
- KYK-13
- Security tokens Security token
- KSD-64
- Fortezza
- STU-III
- FIREFLY
- EKMS
- MS-DOS
- Signal operating instructions
- Hardware random number generator
- D cell D battery
- AN/CYZ-10
- Ethernet
- IP Internet Protocol
- DOD's United States Department of Defense
- ARPA DARPA
- SIPRNet
- JWICS
- Internet
NSA encryption by type of application
- Morse code
- Teletypewriter Teletype Corporation
- KW-26
- KIV-7
- Direction finding
- Call sign
- KW-37
- Teleprinter
- KW-46 KW-46?action=edit&redlink=1
- KG-3 KG-3?action=edit&redlink=1
- KG-38 KG-38?action=edit&redlink=1
- Nuclear submarines Nuclear submarine
- KOV-17 KOV-17?action=edit&redlink=1
- VME VMEbus
- Multiplex Multiplexing
- Optical fiber
- Coaxial cable
- Microwave
- Communication satellites Communication satellite
- WALBURN WALBURN?action=edit&redlink=1
- KG-81 KG-81?action=edit&redlink=1
- KG-94 KG-94?action=edit&redlink=1
- 194A KG-194?action=edit&redlink=1
- KG-94A KG-94A?action=edit&redlink=1
- KG-95 KG-95?action=edit&redlink=1
- T-1 Digital Signal 1
- KG-189 KG-189?action=edit&redlink=1
- SONET
- KG-82 KG-82?action=edit&redlink=1
- Scrambler
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nsa systems encryption used security devices secure use key commercial keys generation classified algorithms communications cipher first internet public device
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethernet | instance of | Encryption support was provided for commercial standards | 0.80 | text |
| IP | instance of | Encryption support was provided for commercial standards | 0.80 | text |
| KG-84 family which includes the TSEC/KG-84 | instance of | which support SONET optical standards up to 2.5 Gbit/s.Digital Data encryptors | 0.80 | text |
| TSEC/KG-84A | instance of | which support SONET optical standards up to 2.5 Gbit/s.Digital Data encryptors | 0.80 | text |
| TSEC/KG-82 | instance of | which support SONET optical standards up to 2.5 Gbit/s.Digital Data encryptors | 0.80 | text |
| TSEC/KG-84C | instance of | which support SONET optical standards up to 2.5 Gbit/s.Digital Data encryptors | 0.80 | text |
| also the KIV-7.KIV-7The KIV-7 is a National Security Agency Type-1 | instance of | which support SONET optical standards up to 2.5 Gbit/s.Digital Data encryptors | 0.80 | text |
| single-channel encryptor originally designed in the mid-1990s by AlliedSignal Corporation to meet the demand for secure data communications from personal computers | instance of | which support SONET optical standards up to 2.5 Gbit/s.Digital Data encryptors | 0.80 | text |
| DRYAD.Public systemsNSA has participated in the development of several cipher devices for public use | instance of | The BBN Safekeeper provided a high degree of tamper resistance and was one of the first devices used by commercial PKI companies.Field authenticationNSA still supports simple pa… | 0.80 | text |
| DRYAD | instance of | Field authenticationNSA still supports simple paper encryption and authentication systems for field use | 0.80 | text |
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