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To: Mariner

Not necessarily. Crypto involves mostly computer technology now-a-days: PKI, Asymmetric keys, Symmetric keys, certificates, etc.

Source: Me. Former COMSEC officer.


60 posted on 11/22/2017 10:03:57 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

There are still daily changing codes.

But they are loaded a month at a time. OR they were when I was deep, deep into classified comms for the MEECN network.

The last time I saw any of it, it was a paper tape with a 30 day key.

And of course there was the hardware.


63 posted on 11/22/2017 10:31:37 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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