NSA

From CryptoDox, The Online Encyclopedia on Cryptography and Information Security

The National Security Agency (NSA) was created in November 1952. NSA has a rich heritage.

NSA has taken responsibility for securing USA's communications while exploiting foreign signals intelligence. Tha NSA opened a public museum devoted to the history of cryptologists and their work in December 1993.

References

• NSA official site
• History of NSA
• "The Origins of the National Security Agency, 1940-1952" —newly declassified book-length report provided by The Memory Hole.
• "Outsourcing Intelligence"
• The National Security Archive at George Washington University
• Cryptome
• CRYPTOME.org - USSID 18 DECLASSIFIED
• Federation of American Scientist
• NSA Headquarters
• “FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION: It comes bundled with the software.” | by Al Massey
• NSA: Bibliography | Compilation and research by Jean-Pierre H. Coumont
• New York Times NSA Phone Taps Article
• Wiretaps said to sift all overseas contacts (Boston Globe)
• Kurt Nimmo. NSA snoop story: Tell me something I don’t already know, Another Day in the Empire, December 24, 2005.
• The Agency That Could Be Big Brother: Dec. 25, 2005 New York Times article by James Bamford, on NSA's Sugar Grove, WV monitoring site