Security News > 2020 > May > Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France SIGINT Alliance

It discloses the name Maximator and provides documentary evidence.

The five members of this European alliance are Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and France.

The cooperation involves both signals analysis and crypto analysis.

The existence of this European sigint alliance gives a novel perspective on western sigint collaborations in the late twentieth century.

The article explains and illustrates, with relatively much attention for the cryptographic details, how the five Maximator participants strengthened their effectiveness via the information about rigged cryptographic devices that its German partner provided, via the joint U.S.-German ownership and control of the Swiss producer Crypto AG of cryptographic devices.

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/05/denmark_sweden_.html