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Re:Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. by nickpsecurity on Monday November 13, 2017 @12:07AM (#15684409)
It was for the high-assurance BLACKER VPN:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacker_(security)

Here's the source on that:

http://cahighways.org/wordpress/?p=5460

Another notable aspect of that was it used an early secure kernel, GEMSOS, that is still marketed by Aesec but probably in legacy mode in bad way. It did resist penetration during NSA certification and time on market far as what data I have says.

http://aesec.com/

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Re:Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. by emmelaich on Monday November 13, 2017 @06:24PM (#15691217)
Great links, thanks.
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