Publisher:
Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency
Published:
2002
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16988718701
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Book. Small Quarto; G+/paperback; green spine with purple text; second edition; volume one; covers have slight rubbing wear to exterior; chips to spine head edge; otherwise mild edge wear; tight binding; textblock exterior edges show some staining; interior pages clean; illustrated; pp 227. 1350284. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Illus. VG lg sz PB updated from previous edition. This forms a backdrop for understanding modern cryptology and its role in the growth in the U.S. Cryptology, the art and. Science of code-breaking (cryptanalysis) depends on the prevailing state of technology and the perception of threat.
Publisher:
Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency
Published:
2002
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
13469935028
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Good. Cover has some wear, soiling, and scratches. vi, 227 p. 28 cm. : Illustrations, Portraits. Bibliography. This is an examination of codes and ciphers as they figured in American history prior to the twentieth century, prior to the era of wireless or radio communicaiton and the advent of the electronic age. It forms a backdrop for understanding modern cryptology and the rold of cryptology (notwithstanding its traditional secrecy) in the growth of this nation. [from the Foreword by David Gaddy. ].
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Minor rubbing. VG. 27x21cm, vi, 236 pp, Series: Center for Cryptologic History, United States Cryptologic History, Seriea 1, Pre World War I, Volume 1. Contents: United Colonies' Code; "Friend Jimmy Ciphers": James Lovell & Secret Ciphers during the American Revolution; The Church Cryptogram: Birth of our Nation's Cryptology; America's First Espionage Code; Dictionary Codes; General George Washington's Tradecraft; American Postal Intercepts; Department of Finance & Foreign Affairs Codes; Jefferson-Patterson Codes; Jefferson's Cipher Cylinder; A Classic American Diplomatic Code; John Quincy Adams' Sliding Cipher; Aaron Burr's "Cipher Letter"; The First U.S. Government Manual on Cryptography; Nicholas Trist Code; Internal Struggle: The Civil War & Reconstruction; Sewards' Other Folly: America's First Encrypted Cable; 1867 State Department Code; Chief Signal Officer's Code for the State Department; "Cipher" Dispatches & the Election of 1876; John H. Haswell: Codemaker; The Red Code of the Department of State, 1876; U.S. Military Cryptography in the Late 19th Century; 1899 Blue Code.
