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- 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
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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
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- It's called Turing - The Enigma. And I agree with the statement above.
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- jw
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