Sources and methods: Searching for cryptologic records in the findings of post-World War II allied technical surveys and commissions

IF 0.3 4区工程技术 Q4 COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS

Cryptologia Pub Date : 2021-07-04 DOI:10.1080/01611194.2021.1921072

Robert J. Hanyok

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Abstract At the end of World War II, the Allied Cryptologic agencies in the U.S.A. and U.K. realized that valuable intelligence about Axis codebreaking and other analytic methods, as well as knowledge about Axis cryptography, could be lost, either through destruction or capture by the Soviet Union. A special organization, known as the Target Intelligence Committee (TICOM), was organized to retrieve this information. Special teams followed Allied forces into former Axis territory, gathered captured records and equipment and interrogated Axis cryptographers about their methods, successes, and failures. In the United States, this material was retained by the National Security Agency until major releases of WWII records to the National Archives, beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for approximately another 20 years. TICOM records constitute a critical resource to understanding the dynamics of the struggle between those charged with protecting communications, the secrets they hold, and those with the mandate to discover those secrets.

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来源和方法:在二战后盟军技术调查和委员会的调查结果中搜索密码记录

摘要第二次世界大战结束时，美国和英国的加密联盟机构意识到，关于轴心国密码破解和其他分析方法的宝贵情报，以及关于轴心国加密的知识，可能会因苏联的破坏或捕获而丢失。一个被称为目标情报委员会（TICOM）的特殊组织被组织起来检索这些信息。特种小组跟随盟军进入前轴心国领土，收集缴获的记录和设备，并询问轴心国密码学家的方法、成功和失败。在美国，这些材料一直由国家安全局保留，直到第二次世界大战记录被国家档案馆大规模公布，从20世纪90年代中期开始，并持续了大约20年。TICOM记录是了解负责保护通信的人、他们所掌握的秘密和有权发现这些秘密的人之间斗争动态的关键资源。

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Cryptologia 工程技术-计算机：理论方法

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33.30%

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审稿时长

24 months

期刊介绍： Cryptologia is the only scholarly journal in the world dealing with the history, the technology, and the effect of the most important form of intelligence in the world today - communications intelligence. It fosters the study of all aspects of cryptology -- technical as well as historical and cultural. The journal"s articles have broken many new paths in intelligence history. They have told for the first time how a special agency prepared information from codebreaking for President Roosevelt, have described the ciphers of Lewis Carroll, revealed details of Hermann Goering"s wiretapping agency, published memoirs - written for it -- of some World War II American codebreakers, disclosed how American codebreaking affected the structure of the United Nations.