{"id":23040,"date":"2024-05-03T11:04:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T05:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23040"},"modified":"2025-04-06T23:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T18:19:30","slug":"five-eyes-intelligence-sharing-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/five-eyes-intelligence-sharing-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Eyes Intelligence-sharing Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Five Eyes Intelligence-sharing Network<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>multilateral intelligence-sharing network<\/strong> shared by over 20 different agencies of five English-speaking countries \u2014 <strong>Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is both surveillance-based and signals intelligence (SIGINT).<\/li>\n<li>Its genesis lies in the post-war 1946 <strong>UKUSA Agreement,<\/strong> intended as a cooperative arrangement for sharing signals intelligence (SIGINT).<\/li>\n<li>Over time, this partnership has extended its reach, becoming an integral part of global intelligence and security operations.<\/li>\n<li>Intelligence documents shared between the members countries are classified as \u2018<strong>Secret\u2014AUS\/CAN\/NZ\/UK\/US<\/strong> Eyes Only,\u2019 which gave the group its title \u2018Five Eyes.<\/li>\n<li>Its scope was limited to \u201ccommunication intelligence matters only\u201d related to \u201cunrestricted\u201d exchange of <strong>intelligence products in six areas:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Collection of traffic; acquisition of communication documents and equipment; traffic analysis; cryptanalysis; decryption and translation; and acquisition of information regarding communication organisations, practices, procedures, and equipment.<\/li>\n<li>The arrangement was later extended to <strong>\u2018second party\u2019 countries<\/strong> \u2014<strong>Canada<\/strong> joined in 1948, while <strong>Australia<\/strong> and <strong>New Zealand<\/strong> became part of the alliance in 1956.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is &#8216;Decryption?<\/h3>\n<p>The conversion of encrypted data into its original form is called Decryption. It is generally a reverse process of encryption. It decodes the encrypted information so that an authorized user can only decrypt the data because decryption requires a secret key or password.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/in-the-world-of-spycraft-why-national-interest-trumps-all-9304549\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In the world of spycraft, why national interest trumps all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Eyes Intelligence-sharing Network is a multilateral intelligence-sharing network shared by over 20 different agencies of five English-speaking countries \u2014 Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}