Cryptologic Bytes

In this Johns Hopkins University HUB article by Doug Donovan - we learn about the Cyber Attack Predictive Index devised by computer science professor Anton Dahbura along with cybersecurity lecturer Dr. Terry Thompson and former undergraduate Divya Rangarajan.

This History.com article by Jesse Greenspan explores the origins of the Native American Code Talkers & how an overheard conversation between two Choctaw Indian soldiers serving in World War I led to a code that confounded German forces.

"The Use of Force for State Power: History and Future" by Michael Warner and John Childress, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) studies force, the coercive application of power against resistance, building from Thomas Hobbes’ observation that all self-contained political orders have some ultimate authority that uses force to both dispense justice and to defend the polity against its enemies. The authors of the book were also the keynote speakers for the NCMF's 2020 Annual Symposium, held virtually in October 2020.

For the 75th Anniversary of #VEDay - GCHQ Historian Tony Comer tells the story of the final messages of a German communications network at the very end of the war in Europe.

A "fascinating" trip to the National Cryptologic Museum inspired writer & photographer Jason Bowling to pen a piece titled America’s Unbroken World War 2 Cipher Machine that explores how SIGABA’s encryption stayed secure as Enigma fell. Sigaba photo by Jason Bowling.

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.

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

Edward Rothstein of "The New York Times" provides a thorough review of the NSA's fascinating "public face," the National Cryptologic Museum.