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| | National Security Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Cryptographic software and hardware had long been classed with fighter planes, tanks, cannons, and atomic bombs as controllable munitions. |
 | | The NSA has, at times, attempted to restrict the publication of academic research into cryptography; for example, the Khufu and Khafre block ciphers. |
 | | NSA, in combination with the equivalent agencies in the United Kingdom (Government Communications Headquarters), Canada (Communications Security Establishment), Australia (Defence Signals Directorate), and New Zealand (Government Communications Security Bureau), and otherwise known as the UKUSA group, is believed to be responsible for, among other things, the operation of the ECHELON system. |
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