Selections from Cryptologia: History, People and Technology by Cipher A. Deavours (Editor), David A. Kahn (Editor), Greg Mellen (Editor)

From the Publisher

Here is the third collection of the very best, most compelling articles and professional papers from CRYPTOLOGIA, the definitive journal on the history and technology of cryptology. Compiled by five distinguished experts in the field, Selections from Cryptologia: History, People, and Technology offers personal accounts of crypto personalities, scholarly papers on the origins of cryptology, the inadequacy of cryptanalysis, and much more.

Organized into two parts, Historica and Technologia, this volume is guaranteed to captivate your interest, whether you're an engineer or programmer involved in computer security, cryptology student, or serious "cipher-buff."

Here are just a few of the classic articles you'll find in this newest volume:

From Historica...
• The Unsolved Messages of Pearl Harbor
• Roosevelt, MAGIC, and ULTRA
• Diplomatic Cryptanalysis in World War II
• My "Purple" Trip to England in 1941

From Technologia...
• Viet Cong SIGINT and US Army COMSEC in Vietnam
• The Cylinder-Cipher
• A World War II German Radio Army Field Cipher and How We Broke It
• New Information on the History of the Siemens and Halske T52 Cipher Machines

Booknews

The third volume of greatest hits from the periodical, with 35 tales from the crypt. Historical perspectives include the failure to break codes at Pearl Harbor, the Arab contribution to the origins of cryptology, code breaking and the birth and structure of the United Nations, and why Safford was pessimistic about breaking the German Enigma cipher machine in 1942. The technology is reviewed with such topics as some Victorian periodic polyalphabetic ciphers, the 1946 Pendergass Report on cryptanalysis and the digital computer, an Enigma chronology, the Norwegian modifications of the Siemans and Halske T52e cipher machines, and the Autoscritcher. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Product Details

• ISBN: 0890068623
  
• ISBN-13: 9780890068625
• Format: Hardcover, 552pp
• Publisher: Artech House, Incorporated
• Pub. Date: January 1998
• Edition Number: 1
• Sales Rank: 758,646
• Series: Artech House Telecommunications Library Series

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