Recent Cryptologic Bytes
Featuring a selection of recent bytes, as well as a few classics we like to keep on hand.
-
As reported by Diana Stancy Correll for the Military Times, a group of U.S. Navy cryptologists is urging the U.S. Navy to name a destroyer after Senior Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Shannon Kent, who was killed Jan. 16, 2019 in Syria.
-
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. Photo by Jason Bowling.
-
On 1 November 1919, the Government Code & Cypher School (GC&CS) was founded as Britain's first integrated cryptographic agency with Alastair Denniston as its operational head. An article published 1 November 2019 in The Guardian describes how the GCHQ celebrates this monumental anniversary - by highlighting lesser-known wartime eavesdropping and decoding efforts that took place in five secret locations, from the Kent cliffs to the Derbyshire countryside.
Don't forget to also visit the recently added exhibit at the National Cryptologic Museum - celebrating the GCHQ's 100th Anniversary. Learn more in the National Cryptologic Museum section of this website.
-
On 16 October 2019, the Center for Cryptologic History (CCH) announced that Code Girls author, Ms. Liza Mundy, will be the NSA/CSS Scholar-in-Residence for 2019-2020. Ms. Mundy is no stranger to in-depth research. Her book Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II (published in 2017) reveals the major, untold story of 10,000 American women who decrypted signals intelligence during World War II.
-
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.
