Baton Rouge was founded in 1719 when the French built a fort on the strategic riverside location. The settlement was ceded to Great Britain in 1762, captured by the Spanish in 1779, and acquired by the United States in 1815 (following a brief period when it was a part of Spanish Florida). It became state capital in 1849. In the Civil War it was captured by David Farragut after the fall of New Orleans (May, 1862); a Confederate attempt to recover it failed (Aug., 1862).
The city has notable antebellum houses. The old capitol (1882), built in the Gothic style of the original, which was burned in the Civil War, still stands; a new 34-story capitol was completed in 1932. Also of interest are the governor's mansion, the old arsenal museum, the retired destroyer Kidd, and the Huey Long grave and memorial. The city has an arts and science center (with a planetarium), several museums, a zoo, and a symphony orchestra. It is the seat of Louisiana State Univ. and Agricultural and Mechanical College and of Southern Univ. and Agricultural and Mechanical College.
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Baton may refer to:
In stick-like objects:
- Baton (conducting), a short thin stick used for directing a musical performance
- Baton (running), an object transferred by runners in a relay race
- Baton (symbol), a symbolic attribute of military or other office
- Baton (twirling), a light metal rod used for keeping time, twirling, and juggling in marching band and parade performances
- Baton (weapon), a club used for law enforcement
- Baton sinister, a mark of cadency in heraldry
In other uses:
- BATON, a Type 1 block cipher, used by the United States government to secure all types of classified information
- Baton Bob, a costumed street performer currently based in Atlanta, Georgia
- Baton Bunny, a Bugs Bunny cartoon of the Looney Tunes series produced in 1958
- Baton Broadcasting, a Canadian broadcaster, now owned by CTVglobemedia
- Baton Broadcasting System, a defunct television system owned by Baton Broadcasting Inc.
- BATON Overlay or BAlanced Tree Over-lay Network, a distributed tree structure for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems
- Baton Rouge, the capital city of Louisiana, USA
- Baton Records, a record label
See also
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BATON is a Type 1 block cipher, used by the United States government to secure all types of classified information.
BATON has a 128-bit block size and a 320-bit key. 160 bits of the key are checksum material; they do not affect the security of the algorithm itself but rather prevent unauthorized keys from being loaded if a BATON device ends up in the hands of an adversary. BATON is fast: on the Advanced INFOSEC Machine (AIM) chip, it encrypts data at 129% of the clock rate, as opposed to 76% for DES, 25% for Triple DES, and 4% for SAVILLE. Its speed and parallelizability were major factors in its selection.
The Sierra II documentation suggests that BATON may be related to MEDLEY.
Usage
BATON is used in a variety of products and standards:- APCO Project 25 (Public standard for land mobile radio) (Algorithm IDs 01 and 41)
- PKCS#11 (Public standard for encryption tokens)
- CDSA/CSSM (Another public standard)
- HAIPE-IS (NSA's version of IPsec)
- FNBDT (Advanced flexible voice security protocol)
- Thales Datacryptor 2000 (a British network-encryption box)
- SecNet-11 (a crypto-secure 802.11b PC Card, based on the Sierra chip)
- Fortezza Plus (a PC Card product, used in the STE)
- SafeXcel-3340 (a HAIPIS network-encryption box)
- Numerous embeddable encryption modules: AIM, CYPRIS, MYK-85, Sierra (microchip), etc.
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