From CoinTelegraph, August 13:
An investigative journalist reported that the FBI issued a standard “Glomar response” to a request for information on Satoshi Nakamoto but with an “interesting assertion.“
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reportedly responded to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from a journalist implying that Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto was a “third party individual” for whom it could neither confirm nor deny it had records.
According to an Aug. 13 X post by investigative journalist Dave Troy, the FBI issued a “Glomar response” to his request for information on Satoshi — neither confirming nor denying the law enforcement agency had records identifying the pseudonymous Bitcoin creator. Troy said he intended to appeal the FOIA response but claimed the FBI had made an “interesting assertion” by implying Satoshi was a “third party individual.”
“I submitted as a broad general subject request, with full context, so it is the bureau and not me that is asserting that this is an individual,” said Troy. “[M]y intent is not to establish the identity behind the pseudonym, but rather to get what info the bureau may have on the subject. If that helps establish identity somehow, fine, but that’s not my primary question.”....
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Giving me an opportunity to quickly retell my Glomar story. From a January 2021 post:
...It was the Glomar Explorer, not the Hughes Glomar. I had a mentor who was doing the accounting for the spooks. Years afterward when I learned of his role for Hughes/CIA I asked if he had any of the books.
He said "which set?"
[apparently they were running three sets of books, one for Global Marine, one for official CIA purposes and then the real set]
"That Time The National Security Agency Invented Bitcoin" (NSA)
A repost from 2018 with a shorter introduction.
I can't swear to the provenance of the piece below but it came to us via a gentleman with a bunch of letters from Harvard following his name who refers to MIT as "The trade school down the river".
If it had been ciphered onto an immutable blockchain the provenance question would be moot but it wasn't, that's life.
I was too chicken to post it until last December:
One of the commenters in the post immediately below, "The FT's Izabella Kaminska Explores the Numéraire and Why It Matters" mentions the fairly widely known fact that the NSA is the home of the SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2) and includes the link.
There is another link that I think is even more interesting, this one hosted at:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htmThe link goes to:
Anonymous: Fried, Frank got NSA's permission to make this report available. They have offered to make copies available by contacting them at <21stcen ffhsj.com=""> or (202) 639-7200. See: http://www.ffhsj.com/bancmail/21starch/961017.htm
Received October 31, 1996
With the Compliments of Thomas P. Vartanian
Fried, Frank, Harris, Schriver & Jacobson
1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-2505
Telephone: (202) 639-7200
HOW TO MAKE A MINT: THE CRYPTOGRAPHY OF ANONYMOUS ELECTRONIC CASH
Laurie Law, Susan Sabett, Jerry Solinas
National Security Agency Office of Information Security Research and Technology
Cryptology Division
18 June 1996
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