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| Author(s): | C. A. Deavours |
| Publisher: | Artech House Books |
| ISBN: | 0 89006 862 3 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 552pp | |
| Price: | £63.00 |
| Review Date: | 23 May 2000 |
| Review: | This is the third volume of articles on the history of cryptology selected from Cryptologia. They include a study of early Arab cryptology, pushing the known origins of the field back some 300 years; a study of American use of foreign codes; and a study of the papal curia in the 19th century. One paper controversially maintains that, had the Japanese messages intercepted before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor been solved at the time, the attack would have been foreseen and so perhaps prevented. Other articles describe Agnes Meyer Driscoll, and her cryptoanalysis between 1918 and 1959, the WW2 German Army field cipher and how it was broken, and the story of the Hagelin Cryptos. |