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NSA News & Highlights

NSA SPOTLIGHT

Georgia Tech Wins NSA's Codebreaker Challenge for Fourth Consecutive Year

FORT MEADE, Md. – For the fourth consecutive year, the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) took first place in the National Security Agency’s annual Codebreaker Challenge (CBC).

NSA and partners Issue Guidance on Fast Flux as a National Security Threat

Joint Publications Focus on Mitigation Strategies for Edge Devices

NSA and Others Publish Guidance for Secure OT Product Selection

Tag: puzzle

April 21, 2016

April 2016 Puzzle Periodical

April 2016 Puzzle Periodical; Puzzle created by Andy F., Applied Research Mathematician, NSA

Oct. 2, 2015

October 2015 Puzzle Periodical

October 2015 Puzzle Periodical; Puzzle created by Ben E., Applied Research Mathematician, NSA

Sept. 15, 2015

September 2015 Puzzle Periodical

September 2015 Puzzle Periodical; Puzzle created by Tim C., Applied Research Mathematician, NSA

Aug. 18, 2015

August 2015 Puzzle Periodical

August 2015 Puzzle Periodical; Puzzle created by Roger B., Cryptanalytic Mathematician, NSA

July 21, 2015

Announcing NSA's Puzzle Periodical

NSA employees work on some of the world‘s most demanding and exhilarating high-tech engineering challenges. Applying complex algorithms and expressing difficult cryptographic problems in terms of mathematics is part of the work NSA employees do every day. Try your hand at a problem written by a member of our expert workforce.

July 21, 2015

July 2015 Puzzle Periodical

July 2015 Puzzle Periodical; Puzzle created by Stephen C., Applied Research Mathematician, NSA