Day Of FAPSI

Description

FAPSI-"Federal Agency for Government communications and information" was the Russian Government agency that was responsible for the stability and security of Government communications signal. Modern successors the FEDERAL Agency is working in the relevant departments of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the foreign intelligence service (SVR), as well as special delivery (part of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) (SSF).

FAPSI was created on the basis of 8-th main Directorate of Government communications and 16-th control electronic intelligence to the KGB. Created as an analogue to the corresponding service United States National Security Agency. September 25, 1991 year Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev dismantled the KGB into several separate divisions. One of them was the "Committee on Government communications under President of SOVIET UNION. December 24, 1991 onwards, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Organization became known as the "Federal Agency for Government communications and information under the President of the Russian Federation". Then President Boris Yeltsin.

In the year 1995 by presidential decree all cryptographic systems except those licensed by FAPSI were forbidden in the Russian Federation. Were widely distributed rumors that all systems licensed FAPSI have backdoors, allowing the Agency to freely access the encrypted information. One of the tasks of the Agency was to protect government sites from tampering. Sometimes the FAPSI was unable to do so for some strange reason the domain has not been paid on time, and became Monster cybersquatting.