[SIGCIS-Members] NSA "pre-history of code-breaking"?

[M. Hicks]

Looks like governmentattic.org is down altogether. Here's a mirror of the file:
http://cryptome.org/2013/06/NSA-WasntAllMagic_2002.pdf

I haven't read through it yet.

Marie

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Marie Hicks, Ph.D.
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Illinois Institute of Technology
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On Jun 24, 2013, at 21:08, Janet Abbate <abbate at vt.edu> wrote:

> This was posted on Slashdot today:
> 
> "The National Security Agency has declassified an eye-opening pre-history of computers used for code-breaking between the 1930s and 1960s. The 344 page report, entitled It Wasn't All Magic: The Early Struggle to Automate Cryptanalysis (pdf), it is available on the Government Attic web site. Government Attic has also just posted a somewhat less declassified NSA compendium from 1993: A Collection of Writings on Traffic Analysis. (pdf)"
> 
> When I tried to click on the link I got an error message (not that I really want  a file from the NSA on my computer...). Anybody know if this is for real?
> 
> Dr. Janet Abbate
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> Science & Technology in Society
> Virginia Tech
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