All protected by munitions grade encryption.
The U.S. munitions list (category I-IV).
Wilson told the tech blog Betabeat: "We got an official letter from the Secretary of State, telling me who they were, what their authority was under US law and telling me they want to review these files to see if they're class one munitions.
Administration officials declined to identify the new missile to be sold to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, except to say that it is an advanced class of precision "standoff munitions" — those designed to be launched from warplanes safely distant from ground targets.
Women were expected to wait at home patiently or, if they were from working-class homes, to join munitions factories.
The first Crypto War was fought in the 1990s when the NSA insisted on a ban on strong crypto in civilian hands, and the US classed the underlying mathematics as munitions.
During World War II, the Brooklyn-born Mr. Wittek, now 87, was Seaman Second Class Wittek of the United States Coast Guard, assigned to a munitions detail in Jersey City.
The submunition in question was of a class known as a Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munition, or DPICM, that is released from cargo canisters in the air and distributed to the targeted area below.
(The German munitions baron Alfred Krupp looms large in this category).
