Selections from Cryptologia: History, People and Technology / Edition 1

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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.

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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.
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Table of Contents

History and Persona - Illumination from the Past 1
The Cryptographic Services of the Royal (British) and Italian Navies 3
Pearl Harbor and the Inadequacy of Cryptanalysis 35
The Unsolved Messages of Pearl Harbor 57
The Fall and Rise of Cryptanalysis in Canada 77
Origins of Cryptology: The Arab Contribution 93
Roosevelt, MAGIC, and ULTRA 123
The Papal Cipher Section in the Early Nineteenth Century 155
Cryptanalysis for Peacetime: Codebreaking and the Birth and Structure of the United Nations 161
Italian Diplomatic Cryptanalysis in World War I 181
Faded Lustre: Vatican Cryptography, 1815-1920 191
Bletchley Park 1941-1945 227
Why Was Safford Pessimistic About Breaking the German Enigma Cipher Machine in 1942? 235
S.I.S./CB 241
Agnes Meyer Driscoll 269
Letters to the Editor - Re: Safford Article 279
My "Purple" Trip to England in 1941 287
Technology - Cryptologic Technology 297
Viet Cong SIGINT and U.S. Army COMSEC in Vietnam 301
Some Victorian Periodic Polyalphabetic Ciphers 309
Chaocipher Enters and the Computer Age When its Method is Disclosed to CRYPTOLOGIA'S Editors 317
The Key-Vowel Cipher of Charles L. Dodgson 323
The Cylinder-Cipher 331
A World War II German Radio Army Field Cipher and How We Broke It 339
An Introduction to an Historic Computer Document: The 1946 Pendergass Report - Cryptanalysis and the Digital Computer 361
Enigma Before ULTRA: Polish Work and the French Contribution 373
Enigma Before ULTRA: The Polish Success and Check 387
Enigma Avant ULTRA (Enigma Before ULTRA) 395
The Turing Bombe: Was It Enough? 403
An Enigma Chronology 423
The Siemens Cipher Teletype in the History of Telecommunications 433
New Information on the History of the Siemens and Halske T52 Cipher Machines 455
The Norwegian Modification of the Siemens and Halske T52e Cipher Machines 461
The Breaking of the Japanese Army Administrative Code 465
The Story of the Hagelin Cryptos 477
The Lorenz Cipher Machine SZ42 517
The Autoscritcher 541
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