Cryptologic Quarterly, #34

Cryptologic Quarterly #34, 2015-1Images used for educational purposes only. Cover: William and Elizebeth Friedman with part of their cryptologic collection. The Editor’s ViewRelease of the Friedman Papers William F. Friedman: A Very Private Cryptographer and His Collection… by Rose Mary M. Sheldon“Everyone’s Ideal”: William Bundy at Bletchley Park… by Kent G. SiegHow Modular Arithmetic Helped

Cryptologic Quarterly, #33

Cryptologic Quarterly is an in-house journal for NSA. Some of the issues have been declassified and are available to the public at a couple different sites, one of which is the Center for Cryptologic History (slash NSA archives), and the other is in the NSA.gov Helpful links area (check out the section on individual articles).

H. O. Yardley – Reader of Gentlemen’s Mail

Cryptology historian and writer David Kahn (1930-2024) passed away on Jan. 23rd. Author of The Codebreakers, he’s one of the few civilian writers to make a really major impact on the field of cryptology, and was a co-founder of the Cryptologia journal, along with Louis Kruh (more on him later). I requested his Reader of

TICOM vol. 1: Synopsis

This is a hand-typed report, with corrections, for volume 1 of the 9-volume TICOM series, subtitled “EUROPEAN AXIS SIGNAL INTELLIGENCE IN WORLD WAR II AS REVEALED BY “TICOM” INVESTIGATIONS AND BY OTHER PRISONER OF WAR INTERROGATIONS AND CAPTURED MATERIAL, PRINCIPALLY GERMAN”. I’m not really sure where I got it from, and I’m not finding a

Signal Corps Vol. 3, The Outcome

Finishing off with vol. 3 of the History of the Signal Corps. Photos used for educational purposes only. Vol. 1: The Emergency, by Dulany TerrettVol. 2: The Test, by Thompson, Harris, Oakes and TerrettVol. 3: The Outcome, by Thompson and Harris The Signal Corps: The Outcome (Mid-1943 Through 1945), by Thompson and Harris, (1966, reprinted

Cryptocomics

More material from the NSA Historical Publications site. Artwork used here for educational purposes only. Back in April, I ran a list of PDF files available for free download from the Center for Cryptologic History site. In that list were a handful of short infotainment files called “Cryptocomics.” Most recently, I decided to read each

History of U.S. Communications Intelligence during WW II

More material from the NSA Historical Publications site. A History of U.S. Communications Intelligence during World War II: Policy and Administration, by Robert Louis Benson (1997) pp. 193 I’m not really finding anything on Benson, and I don’t seem to have reviewed anything by him previously. The Online Archive of California lists a Robert Louis

The Friedman Legacy: A Tribute to William and Elizebeth Friedman

More material from the NSA Historical Publications site. Images and photos used here for educational purposes only. The Friedman Legacy: A Tribute to William and Elizebeth Friedman, by Various (2006) 226 pp.This collection of documents has a forward by David W. Gaddy, dated 1992, when he was Chief of the Center for Cryptologic History. I

West Wind Clear

More material from the NSA Historical Publications site. West Wind Clear: Cryptology and the Winds Message Controversy, by Robert J. Hanyok and David P. Mowry (2008) pp 352. Hanyok wrote Eavesdropping on Hell, Mowry wrote Listening in on the Rumrunners. They co-wrote this book, but Mowry died in 2005, before publication. The basic premise is

Codes, Ciphers and Spies – Dooley

We’re back with the second of two John Dooley books I received for Christmas (the first being Codes and Villains and Mystery). Codes, Ciphers and Spies: Tales of Military Intelligence in World War I, by John Dooley (2016) $32.99, 280 pp. While the subtitle implies that the focus of the book is the general concept