Crypto Cat™ and Decipher Dog™!

A hot new website!

Hi Kids!

Welcome to the NSA/CSS Kids’ page.

We’re the CryptoKids and we love cryptology.

What’s cryptology? Cryptology is making and breaking codes. It’s so cool. We make codes so we can send secret messages to our friends. And we try to figure out what other people are writing about by breaking their codes. It’s a lot of fun.

On this site, you can learn all about codes and ciphers, play lots of games and activities, and get to know each of us - Crypto Cat™, Decipher Dog™, Rosetta Stone, Slate, Joules, T.Top, and, of course, our leader CSS Sam.

You can also learn about the National Security Agency/Central Security Service - they’re America’s real codemakers and codebreakers. Our Nation’s leaders and warfighters count on the technology and information they get from NSA/CSS to get their jobs done. Without NSA/CSS, they wouldn’t be able to talk to one another without the bad guys listening and they wouldn’t be able to figure out what the bad guys were planning.

We hope you have lots of fun learning about cryptology and NSA/CSS. You might be part of the next generation of America’s codemakers and codebreakers.

I'm not making this up. Interesting that they trademarked Decipher Dog, but not CSS Sam, their leader.

The one saving grace in this whole domestic spying story is that we all know our government is too incompetent to make any mass trouble with its spying. That doesn't mean we should let it get away with it, or that it can't ruin plenty of individual lives, or that a government can't get real good at building gulags much quicker than it can get good at building schools. For all these reasons, we really can't let them get away with ignoring the one branch of government I'm cool with, the judiciary.

That said, unlike many of my acquaintances, I'm not particularly worried about being put on a list for writing this or listening to Arab pop music on internet radio.