CONTENTS
Preface to the Revised Edition
Preface
A Few Words
1. One Day of Magic
THE PAGENT OF CRYPTOLOGY
2. The First 3,000 Years
3. The Rise of the West
4. On the Origin of a Species
5. The Era of the Black Chambers
6. The Contribution of the Dilettantes
7. Crises of the Union
8. The Professor, the Soldier, and the Man on Devil's Island
9. Room 40
10. A War of Intercepts: I
11. A War of Intercepts: II
12. Two Americans
13. Secrecy for Sale
14. Duel in the Ether: The Axis
15. Duel in the Ether: Neutrals and Allies
16. Censors, Scramblers, and Spies
17. The Scrutable Orientals
18. Russkaya Kriptologiya ("Russian Cryptology")
19. N.S.A.
SIDESHOWS
20. The Anatomy of Cryptology
21. Heterogeneous Impulses
22. Rumrunners, Businessmen, and Makers of Non-secret Codes
23. Ciphers in the Past Tense
24. The Pathology of Cryptology
PARACRYPTOLOGY
25. Ancestral Voices
26. Messages from Outer Space
THE NEW CRYPTOLOGY
27. Cryptology Goes Public
Bibliography
Notes to Text
Acknowledgments
Notes to Illustrations
Index
David Kahn, a recently visiting historian at the National Security Agency, is the world's leading expert on the history of cryptology, and the author of Hitler's Spies, Seizing the Enigma, and Kahn on Codes, as well as articles in numerous popular and technical journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern History from Oxford. An editor at Newsday, he lives in Great Neck, New York.
The Washington Post Kahn has produced a tour de force...The volume
is an anthology of a hundred detective stories, one more ingenious
than the last, and all real, central to the fate of armies and
kingdoms....Magnificent.
The Christian Science Monitor A literary blockbuster...for many
evening of gripping reading, no better choice can be made than this
book.
Time Perhaps the best and most complete account of cryptography yet
published.
The New York Times Book Review A notable achievement...Mr. Kahn has
presented the specialist and the general public with a lavishly
comprehensive introduction to a subject of basic significance for
both.
Prepublication National Security Agency Evaluation, now
declassified The book in its entirelty constitutes the most
publicly revealing picture that has ever been presented of U.S.
Sigint activities and the agencies engaged in this field.
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