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Article #2783Re: History of cryptography -- references sought
From: Joseph Wetstein
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:47
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:47
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In article <C0xr4z.MuM@demon.co.uk> gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes: >In article <adrian.727124671@milton> adrian@milton.u.washington.edu (Adrian Mariano) writes: >:I am looking for books or chapters of books which discuss in any way, >:the history of cryptography. I want examples of uses of cryptography >:in the past, or examples of methods of cryptography that were used in >:the past. >: >:I currently have >: The Code Breakers by David Kahn >: The Puzzle Palace by James Bamford >:on my list. >: >:Can anyone suggest other references? > >There's a popular biog of Alan Turing that has a couple of interesting bits, >if you can wade through the turgid style of the rest of it, and the author's >obvious axe-grinding about sexual politics. > >G It's called Turing - The Enigma. And I agree with the statement above. jw
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.noc.drexel.edu!coe.drexel.edu!jpw From: jpw@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: History of cryptography -- references sought Keywords: history Message-ID: <1993Jan21.194730.17882@cbis.ece.drexel.edu> Date: 21 Jan 93 19:47:30 GMT References: <adrian.727124671@milton> <C0xr4z.MuM@demon.co.uk> Organization: Drexel University, College of Engineering, Philadelphia, PA Lines: 23