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NSA News & Highlights

NSA SPOTLIGHT

Headline Puzzle: January 2025

The Headline Puzzle is a monthly feature that was started in 1964 by Paul Derthick, a longtime research analyst in NSA’s Operations Organization, as an interesting way to keep his mind sharp outside of his cryptanalytic work. Each Headline Puzzle contains five headlines from recent daily newspapers. Each of the five is a different monoalphabetic substitution, and all five are derived from the same mixed alphabet at different settings against itself. A complete solution includes recovering the...

Statement from Gen Tim Haugh, Commander, USCYBERCOM, Director, NSA/Chief, CSS, on the Passing of Former President Jimmy Carter

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part Two, 1982)

U.S. Military Academy honored at White House for winning NSA’s 2024 Cyber Exercise

Tag: Lei Day

Lei Haku (left) and Lei Wili (right) sit side-by-side on a table during a lei making workshop.

May 30, 2023

NSA Celebrates Second Annual Lei Day

This May marks the second year in a row that the National Security Agency (NSA) will incorporate the celebration of Lei Day into Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.