National Security Agency/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• United States intelligence community [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. Department of Defense [r]: one of more than a dozen U.S. executive-managed government agencies; this one administers the military forces of the United States, and their supporting civil servants. ^[e]

• Information Security [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Director of National Intelligence [r]: Prior to the attacks of 9/11, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was the nominal head of the United States Intelligence Community, following 9/11 a more senior position was created, with a measure of actual authority over those agencies ^[e]

Subtopics

People

• Director, National Security Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• William Friedman [r]: Add brief definition or description

Cryptographic systems

• Advanced Encryption Standard [r]: A US government standard issued in 2002 for a stronger block cipher to succeed the earlier Data Encryption Standard. ^[e]
• KG-13 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• KIV-7 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• SKIPJACK [r]: Add brief definition or description
• FASTLANE [r]: A family of U.S. National Security Agency approved encryption devices for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) and Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) transmission systems ^[e]
• TACLANE [r]: Add brief definition or description

Communications

• JWICS [r]: Add brief definition or description
• TROJAN SPIRIT [r]: Add brief definition or description

Operations

• National Security Agency and Southeast Asia, 1954-1961 [r]: U.S. signals intelligence and communications security activity prior to major ground commitments ^[e]

Other related topics

• C.A. Ruppersberger [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Classified information [r]: Material collected or created by a government that is subject to limitations on its release to the general public and may have penalties for its unauthorized release. ^[e]
  • Compartmented control system [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Committee for State Security [r]: Usually known as the KGB, one of Organs of State Security of the Soviet Union, with extensive responsibilities in intelligence (information gathering), border security, counterintelligence and suppression of dissent; split up in the Russian Federation with counterintelligence in the FSB and foreign intelligence in the SVR ^[e]
• Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Communications Security Establishment [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Government Communications Security Bureau [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gulf of Tonkin incident [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Measurement and signature intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Reconnaissance Office [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Security Act of 1947 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operations security [r]: Add brief definition or description
• RC-135 COMBAT SENT [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Signals intelligence from 1990 to the present [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Warrantless surveillance [r]: Add brief definition or description