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NSA Rubicon
NSA cryptomathematician
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Dave Frasier (?-1979) was a cryptomathematician at department G4 of the US
National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade (MD, USA).
Together with his colleagues Peter Jenks,
Frank Raven and Nora Mackebee,
he worked on the CIA's covert operations SPARTAN and
RUBICON. In the latter, the CIA
and the German BND had secretly purchased the Swiss company
Crypto AG (Hagelin), whith the aim to spy on its
customers. It was the NSA's task to break these cipher systems.
He was involved in the development of weakened cryptographic algorithms that
were inserted by CIA into the equipment sold by
Crypto AG (Hagelin).
This is also known as a backdoor.
Together with Peter Jenks he was the cryptographic heart and
soul of the NSA and in particular of the CIA's
Operation RUBICON. In mid-1979, nine years into the
operation, Dave Frasier committed suicide. Around the same time,
Peter Jenks abruptly retired from the NSA.
He died in 1989 of cancer.
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