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The Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite (CNSA) is a set of cryptographic algorithms promulgated by the National Security Agency as a replacement for NSA Suite B Cryptography algorithms. It serves as the cryptographic base to protect US National Security Systems information up to the top secret level, while the NSA plans for a ...
NSA Suite B Cryptography was a set of cryptographic algorithms promulgated by the National Security Agency as part of its Cryptographic Modernization Program. It was to serve as an interoperable cryptographic base for both unclassified information and most classified information. Suite B was announced on 16 February 2005.
The vast majority of the National Security Agency's work on encryption is classified, but from time to time NSA participates in standards processes or otherwise publishes information about its cryptographic algorithms. The NSA has categorized encryption items into four product types, and algorithms into two suites.
Integrating cyber tools with those of national security, [1] the directive complements NSPD-54/Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-23. Classified and unreleased by the National Security Agency (NSA), NSPD-54 was authorized by George W. Bush. [1] It gives the U.S. government power to conduct surveillance [2] through monitoring. [1]
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) used to rank cryptographic products or algorithms by a certification called product types.Product types were defined in the National Information Assurance Glossary (CNSSI No. 4009, 2010) which used to define Type 1, 2, 3, and 4 products. [1]
NSA Suite A Cryptography is NSA cryptography which "contains classified algorithms that will not be released." "Suite A will be used for the protection of some categories of especially sensitive information (a small percentage of the overall national security-related information assurance market)."
According to The Washington Post and national security reporter Marc Ambinder, XKeyscore is an NSA data-retrieval system which consists of a series of user interfaces, backend databases, servers and software that selects certain types of data and metadata that the NSA has already collected using other methods. [6] [7]
The Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), now Computer Network Operations, and structured as S32, [1] is a cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the National Security Agency (NSA). [2] It has been active since at least 1998, possibly 1997, but was not named or structured as TAO until "the last days of 2000," according to General ...