The Codebreakers war: David Kahn, Macmillan, the government, and the making of a cryptologic history masterpiece

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

Cryptologia Pub Date : 2022-02-03 DOI:10.1080/01611194.2021.1998808

David Sherman

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Abstract

Abstract David Kahn’s The Codebreakers, published in 1967, is the first modern comprehensive history of cryptology. Based on extensive research, including interviews with former government cryptologists in the United States and Europe, Kahn’s volume blazed a trail that numerous historians would follow. It also attracted the attention of intelligence officials in Washington and London, who sought to excise or edit passages in the book. In one of these, Kahn made but agreed to remove a claim that during World War II the Allies had broken the supposedly invulnerable Enigma, a feat that would remain secret until the following decade.

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密码破译者之战：大卫·卡恩、麦克米伦、政府和密码历史杰作的制作

摘要大卫·卡恩于1967年出版的《密码破译者》是第一部现代密码学综合史。基于广泛的研究，包括对美国和欧洲前政府密码学家的采访，卡恩的著作开辟了一条众多历史学家都会追随的道路。这也引起了华盛顿和伦敦情报官员的注意，他们试图删除或编辑书中的段落。在其中一个案例中，卡恩提出但同意删除一个说法，即在第二次世界大战期间，盟军破解了所谓的无懈可击的谜，这一壮举将一直保密到接下来的十年。

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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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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.