Cryptographys Importance In Go

Cryptography’s Importance in Government

Cryptography is one of the most influential and important assets pertaining to government today. Cryptography is the mathematical science of preparingcommunication incoherent to parties unintended to receive the message.

A presidential directive at 12:01, on November 4, 1952, established the National Security Agency (NSA) as a separate, secret organized agency within the Department of Defense (DoD) in this directive, President Truman appointed the Secretary of Defense as Executive Agent for the signal intelligence & communications security activities of the government. The Agency received additional duties, which was to provide information systems security (INFOSEC) for national security systems, in a 1984 presidential directive. In addition, they also received an operation security training mission in a 1988 presidential directive. The INFOSEC mission provides leadership, products, and services to protect all national security systems against exploitation through interception, unauthorized access, or related technical intelligence threats (Pike, 1996).

Cryptography has a substantial role in the United States’ economy, military, and overall, secure communication. Cryptography is used in secure telephones (STU III & STU IV) used by the White House, Pentagon, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other governmental agencies vulnerable to eavesdropping by potentially hostile nations. The commercial sector of the United States also uses cryptography. Hundreds of messages over the Internet stay secure with the use of high security cryptographic software. Companies like Amazon.com, E-bay, On-sale.com, and others must protect their customer’s right to security when making a purchase over the Internet, which is extremely vulnerable to fraud (Beth, 1995).

Cryptography, through various means, warrant that communication between command and control centers in the military remain authentic between forces. They do this by using a “one-time pad'; it contains a set of numbers representing words and word phrases. After the given message is decoded, the sheet with the codes and phrases used is destroyed, and the codes used only once, hence the name “one-time pad';. Several other regions cryptography is used is in secure communication. NATO forces share...

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...cking codes between nations and testing the security of communication between government agencies. To ensure national security, they take part in intelligence gathering operations, that are funded by the government in their budget

(See Graph, Pg. 7.) Covert and clandestine operations in hostile nations sometimes report encrypted data to the National Security Agency for further analysis. These covert operations have given the National Security Agency a nickname amongst the nation, “No Such Agency';, as Washington dubbed them.

In conclusion, cryptography has ensured the security of the United States in the past by decommissioning a KGB spy ring, entrenched deep in North America. It showed importance (the ability to decipher a pre-empting attack on the United States) in the Pearl Harbor attack, in 1941. Cryptography will prove to be important in the present and future by ensuring that credit card numbers stay secure over the internet, fraud does not occur (over the internet), military actions are not compromised through shoddy radio security, and information exchanged among the White House, Pentagon, and other governmental agencies are not compromised by hostile nations.