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NSA was undergoing a transformation on the subject question during the timeframe you are questioning. In the previous two decades through the mid 90s NSA advocated for no strong privately controlled public encryption. This position surfaced with their clash with MIT over the work of the famed RSA crew Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman resulting ...

what NSA suggested for use in commercial systems in past times. 90's and early 2000's. NSA did not publicize their involvement in national standards. So, the exact role NSA played in algorithms and documents may be difficult to determine. In 1987 the U.S. Congress passed the "Computer Security Act" which was intended to limit the role of the National ...

There are a variety of sources out there for this kind of information, but only for individual services or operating systems. It's rather hard to get exact dates and version information on a lot of this, because people still had old versions of software running, or changes weren't documented at the same time they were made. I've done my best to correlate the ...

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