The Resource Coded messages : how the CIA and NSA hoodwink Congress and the people, Nelson McAvoy
Coded messages : how the CIA and NSA hoodwink Congress and the people, Nelson McAvoy
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- Summary
- Government is reading your mail, and the Intelligence services are reading the Government's mail. Who is in charge?. The National Security Agency was formed under such secrecy that it evades even Congressional scrutiny. A former NSA scientist raises an alarm over this abuse of America?s founding principles. Along the way, he gives a technical briefing on how messages were encrypted and deciphered until the Internet age, demonstrates that the paranoiac secrecy over encryption is now obsolete, and explains why. All this is enlivened with entertaining behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the author?s
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 197 pages)
- Contents
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- Abbreviations, Special Terms, and Names; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Symmetric Codes; Chapter 2. The Birth of the NSA; Chapter 3. NSA 1953-1997; Chapter 4. NSA 1997-2010; Chapter 5. Conclusions; Appendix A. Some Mathematical Concepts of Cryptography; Appendix B. Public Key Crypto Concepts; Bibliography; Index
- Isbn
- 9780875868158
- Label
- Coded messages : how the CIA and NSA hoodwink Congress and the people
- Title
- Coded messages
- Title remainder
- how the CIA and NSA hoodwink Congress and the people
- Statement of responsibility
- Nelson McAvoy
- Subject
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- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- History
- Intelligence service
- Intelligence service -- United States -- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | Intelligence
- TRUE CRIME -- Espionage
- United States
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- History
- United States, National Security Agency
- United States, National Security Agency -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Government is reading your mail, and the Intelligence services are reading the Government's mail. Who is in charge?. The National Security Agency was formed under such secrecy that it evades even Congressional scrutiny. A former NSA scientist raises an alarm over this abuse of America?s founding principles. Along the way, he gives a technical briefing on how messages were encrypted and deciphered until the Internet age, demonstrates that the paranoiac secrecy over encryption is now obsolete, and explains why. All this is enlivened with entertaining behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the author?s
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1930-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McAvoy, Nelson
- Dewey number
- 327.1273
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- JK468.I6
- LC item number
- M286 2010eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- United States
- Intelligence service
- United States
- United States
- TRUE CRIME
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Intelligence service
- United States
- Label
- Coded messages : how the CIA and NSA hoodwink Congress and the people, Nelson McAvoy
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Abbreviations, Special Terms, and Names; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Symmetric Codes; Chapter 2. The Birth of the NSA; Chapter 3. NSA 1953-1997; Chapter 4. NSA 1997-2010; Chapter 5. Conclusions; Appendix A. Some Mathematical Concepts of Cryptography; Appendix B. Public Key Crypto Concepts; Bibliography; Index
- Control code
- 693780693
- Dimensions
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- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 197 pages)
- File format
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- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780875868158
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- unknown
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- Media MARC source
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- illustrations
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- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)693780693
- Label
- Coded messages : how the CIA and NSA hoodwink Congress and the people, Nelson McAvoy
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Abbreviations, Special Terms, and Names; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Symmetric Codes; Chapter 2. The Birth of the NSA; Chapter 3. NSA 1953-1997; Chapter 4. NSA 1997-2010; Chapter 5. Conclusions; Appendix A. Some Mathematical Concepts of Cryptography; Appendix B. Public Key Crypto Concepts; Bibliography; Index
- Control code
- 693780693
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 197 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780875868158
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)693780693
Subject
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- History
- Intelligence service
- Intelligence service -- United States -- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | Intelligence
- TRUE CRIME -- Espionage
- United States
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- History
- United States, National Security Agency
- United States, National Security Agency -- History
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