Re: "How Long Will Unbreakable Commercial Encryption Last?"

Stewart Baker was NSA General Counsel in Crypto 
War 1 and has consistently advocated the Agency's 
policies, and remains under lifetime NDA.

Related: Since 9/11 the vastly expanded and amply 
funded NSA declares how it has formidably 
emplaced itself in gov/com/edu/org worldwide to 
influence encryption controls, nearly always 
requiring NDA of participants (at "over 200 universities in 44 states"):

https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/presidential-transition-documents/2016_Insert_3_Did_You_Know_4.pdf

"NSA has representatives at all Intelligence 
Community agencies, at all of the military 
combatant commands, and at many other federal 
agencies in order to enhance and refine support to our partners.

All foreign signals intelligence information 
produced by NSA is in response to specific 
requirements submitted by our partners across the 
government. NSA’s priorities are derived from a 
framework set by the President and executed by 
the Director of National Intelligence.

NSA’s four cryptologic centers – in Georgia, 
Colorado, Texas, and Hawaii – not only provide 
critical intelligence and information assurance 
products and services to NSA’s partners around 
the globe, but the distributed architecture that 
connects the centers and the NSA Washington area 
headquarters also ensures continuity of operations.

Since 2001, NSA has deployed over 18,000 
personnel into hostile zones to provide direct support to our warfighters.

NSA and the Department of Homeland Security have 
recognized over 200 universities in 44 states, 
the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico as 
Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense 
and Information Assurance Education and Research.

NSA partners with the National Science Foundation 
to conduct GenCyber Camps – week-long, no cost 
summer camps aimed at increasing both interest in 
cybersecurity careers and diversity in the 
nation’s cybersecurity workforce – for students 
ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade. Over 160 
camps were held in 33 states in 2016.

Over 200 patents are held by NSA personnel – more 
than any other federal agency."

If it were a private company, NSA would rank in 
the top 10% of Fortune 500 companies in size and budget.


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