From: jac54@cas.org () Subject: Re: History of cryptography (rather long) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 11:50:32 GMT In article <1993Jan18.154916.7507@cas.org> jac54@cas.org () writes: >In article gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham >Toal) writes: >>In article adrian@milton.u.washington.edu >>(Adrian Mariano) writes: >>:I am looking for books or chapters of books which discuss in any way, >>:the history of cryptography. I want examples of uses of cryptography >>:in the past, or examples of methods of cryptography that were used in >>:the past. >>: >>:I currently have >>: The Code Breakers by David Kahn >>: The Puzzle Palace by James Bamford >>:on my list. >>: >>:Can anyone suggest other references? >> >>There's a popular biog of Alan Turing that has a couple of interesting bits, > > The Hut Six Story by Gordon Welchman > > 40 O.B by Hugh Cleland Hoy > > At least half the catalogue of Aegean Park Press :-). > > Alec Chambers To follow up further, I searched a database of relevant literature last night and came up with the following. Title Author Publisher Top Secret Ultra Calvocoressi, Sphere (paperback) Peter Man Who Broke Purple, The Clarke, Ronald Little,Brown Zimmerman Telegram, The Friedman& APP* Mendelsohn Double Edged Secrets Holmes, W.J. Naval Institute Press Intelligence and Crypt- James, Adm. APP analytic activities of the Sir William British Navy in WWI ULTRA Kesaris, Paul University Publications of America American magic Lewin, Ronald Farrar Strauss Secret and Urgent Pratt, Fletcher Bobbs-Merrill American Black Chamber, The Yardley, Bobbs-Merrill Herbert O. Lincoln in the Telegraph Bates, David H. Appleton-Century Office Very Special Admiral Beesley, Patrick Hamish Hamilton Very Special Intelligence ditto ditto Ultra in the West Bennett, Ralph Simon&Schuster What Fools We Were Cockerill, Hutchinson Sir George Man of Room 40, The Ewing, Alfred W. Hutchinson Solving German Codes in WWI Friedman, APP William F. Breach of Security Irving, David William Kimber Mary Queen of Scots and Pollen, J.H. University of the Babbington Plot Edinburgh Secret Capture, The Roskill, Collins Stephen W. Annotated Bibliography of Shulman, David Garland Cryptography Enigma Bertrand, Librairie Plon (Paris) Gustave Knox Brothers, The Fitzgerald, Coward-McCann Penelope Enigma War, The Garlinski, Scribner's Josef Seizing the Enigma Kahn, David Houghton Miflin Deadly Magic van der Rhoer, Robert Hale E Broken Seal, The Farago, Ladislas (can't remember) Zimmerman Telegram, The Tuchmann, Barbara ditto These will not all be easy to find and neither is the list exhaustive. *APP= Aegean Park Press P.O.Box 2837 Laguna Hills CA 92654 Phone: 714 586-8811 Alec Chambers