Re: NSA GAK Report Up

[Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>]

At 11:01 AM 4/15/98 -0800, Lee Tien wrote:
>Do we know how the report was acquired?  It says "2/18/98  NSA, X3"  I
>think X9 is a standards committee for banks, cf. NSA's comments re adoption
>of 3DES; is X3 as well?  Is that where this came out?  Or was it through a
>FOIA request or a leak?

I believe it was made public by the NSA.

Bruce
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