NIST
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| Headquarters | Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S. |
| Leader | Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and Director of NIST |
| Subpage | •NIST/Director |
| Now infamous for their attempt to cover-up the truth of the 9-11 controlled demolitions. | |
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September 11th, 2001
In 2002 the National Construction Safety Team Act mandated NIST to conduct an investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings 1 and 2 and the 47-storey 7 World Trade Center. The point man for the "World Trade Center Collapse Investigation" has been named as Stephen Cauffman and the lead investigator WAS Shyam Sunder,[1] covered three aspects, including a technical building and fire safety investigation to study the factors contributing to the probable cause of the collapses of the WTC Towers (WTC 1 and 2) and WTC 7.
NIST blocked release of various videos about 9/11. In response to FOIA requests they later released videos, including video about firefighters discusing explosives in the WTC.[2] They also released video[Why?] in 2010 showing Michael Hess calling from the 8th floor of WTC7.
Compromised cryptography
NIST is responsible for standardising cryptographic algorithms and standardised Dual_EC_DRBG, which already by 2004 was understood by some researchers to have a possible kleptographic backdoor in its design, with the unusual property that it was theoretically impossible for anyone but Dual_EC_DRBG's designers (NSA) to confirm the backdoor's existence. Bruce Schneier concluded shortly after standardization that the "rather obvious" backdoor (along with other deficiencies) would mean that nobody would use Dual_EC_DRBG.[3] The backdoor would allow NSA to decrypt for example SSL/TLS encryption which used Dual_EC_DRBG as a CSPRNG.[4]
Snowden's revelations
In December 2013, a Reuters news article alleged that in 2004, before NIST had standardized Dual_EC_DRBG, NSA paid RSA Security $10 million in a secret deal to use Dual_EC_DRBG as the default in the RSA BSAFE cryptography library, which resulted in RSA Security becoming the most important distributor of the insecure algorithm.[5] RSA denied ever knowingly colluded with the NSA to adopt an algorithm that was known to be flawed, saying "we have never kept [our] relationship [with the NSA] a secret".[6]
Employee on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed |
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| John Gross | Research Structural Engineer | July 1983 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:NIST Analyses Brookman.pdf | paper | 26 March 2010 | Ronald Brookman | |
| File:Nanothermite Smoking Gun.pdf | article | 18 August 2009 | Michael Schmidt | An introduction to the nano-thermite issue and how the "investigators" chose to ignore this aspect. |
| File:The Top Ten Connections Between NIST and Nano-Thermites.pdf | paper | 2 July 2008 | Kevin Ryan | An examination of NIST's connections to the nano-thermite. |
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