The NSA, due to a FOIA request, recently released a collection of indices for four internal publications as well as publications from the Center for Cryptologic History dating back to as early as 1956! Topics range from the usual suspects (e.g., "TEMPEST: A Signal Problem," "Soviet Defector at NSA") to the mundane (e.g., "The Effort to Create a Smoke-Free NSA").



Mirrored copies of the released PDFs:

• Cryptologic Quarterly (Spring 1982 - Winter 1996)
• NSA Technical Journal (April 1056 - Fall 1980)
• Cryptologic Spectrum (1969 - 1981)
• Cryptologic Almanac (Jan/Feb 2002 - Apr/Jun 2003)
• Center for Cryptologic History Publications

Former President Clinton walks into a trap on Fox News Sunday, but it doesn't turn out exactly as planned.

The Washington Post has an interesting article from a former Soviet dissident on the perils of state-sponsored torture.

Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting, the recently released book that tells the story of Johns Hopkins computer security researcher Avi Rubin's efforts to highlight the dangers of electronic voting, contains some amazingly discouraging anecdotes. From the Slashdot review: Is this is really the mindset of the majority of people running elections? Exposing the means by which democracy can be subverted in a virtually undetectable manner by a small number of motivated and unscrupulous individuals is somehow itself a threat to democracy?