Recent Cryptologic Bytes
Featuring a selection of recent bytes, as well as a few classics we like to keep on hand.
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Elonka Dunin is one of the code breakers from around the world who are determined to solve the secret message hidden in Jim Sanborn's famous Kryptos sculpture located on the grounds of the CIA. Check out this CNN special video about the sculpture and those who continue to try and solve the code.
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As author Dr. A. Ray Miller put it, this monograph "derives...the exact number of theoretical cyptographic key settings and machine configurations for the Enigma cipher machine. Click to learn more and to read the publication.
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The building looks like an Enigma machine! This unique traveling exhibition is dedicated to those who made a successful attempt to break the cipher, which was thought impossible to break. The success was based on the genius, talent, work of some extraordinary people, and began in 1929 in Poznań with three very talented individuals, Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki. Click to learn more.
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By the end of 2021, people will begin to see mathematician Alan Turing featured on the Bank of England's newest 50 pound note. The bill will include a quote from the man who helped to lay the foundation for computer science....: "This is only a foretaste of what is to come and only the shadow of what is going to be." Click to learn more.
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US Navy Senior Chief Cryptologic Technician Shannon M. Kent was honored on 28 Feb 2019 at a ceremony at NSA during which her name became the 177th on the Cryptologic Memorial Wall. Kent, an Arabic linguist with Fort Meade's Cryptologic Warfare Activity 66, was killed during a suicide bombing in the Syrian town of Manbij on 16 Jan 2019.
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This podcast by author Payne Harrison of "The SIGINT Tableau" includes thumbnail reviews of "The Good Listener" by Fin Kennedy on BBC Radio Drama, "Pine Gap" an Australian TV show available on Netflix, and "The Third Reich Is Listening: Inside German Codebreaking 1939-45" by author Christian Jennings. Check out Harrison's "Black Cipher." Click to learn more.
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The NCMF's social media community responded to our request for book recommendations from their own cryptologic libraries. Check out their suggestions and see what you might add to your library. If you have books to add to the list, please email webadmin@cryptologicfoundation.org
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Edward Rothstein of "The New York Times" provides a thorough review of the NSA's fascinating "public face," the National Cryptologic Museum.
