![]() Yardley’s novel, The BlondCountess, and a 1942 15-chapter serial, The Secret Code more than 20 miscellaneousand unusual cryptologic related items including a letter dated June 14,1796 from William Coleman, friend of Alexander Hamilton, and publisherof the New York Post, with a message concealed in an old shorthand system,and other unique items over 70 non-military,amateur and juvenile codes,ciphers,cipherdisks,crypto devices, Captain Midnight and Orphan Annie decoders,etc. and 16 cryptologic games and toys.I have been gathering these materialsfor the 60 years I have been interested in codes and ciphers, includingthe more than 25 years that I have been an editor of Cryptologia, the scholarlyjournal in the field. The collection, totaling thousands of items, occupies more than230 linear feet of shelf space and fills more than 11 office file drawers.It includes a number of antiquarian books including Trithemio,Ionne Steganographia,1621,inits original vellum binding Porta, Ioan Baptista. De Furtivis LiterarumNotis,vvlgo de Ziferis, libris iiii, 1563, 228 pp. and Bazeries, Etienne.Les chiffres secrets devoiles 1901, 277 pp. Other items of cryptologic significance include: William F. Friedman’s1923 Elements of Cryptanalysis, which first used that term in a book andwhich endowed cryptology with the terminology that the field still usesand clarified relations between cryptosystems, Friedman’s Military Cryptanalysis,afour-volume expansion that trained thousands in World War II and remainsa standard work on classical (pre-public key) cryptology. But one of hisgreatest feats was his writing of eight Riverbank publications from 1918-1922.Acording to David Kahn’s The Codebreakers, they are“a landmark in the historyof cryptology” and except for one reprint, the originals are included inthis collection. In the mid-1970s the National Security Agency planned to replace Friedman’sMilitary Cryptanalysis with a new hardbound, six-volume series, Militar圜ryptanalytics. These were classified Confidential and are likely the onlyoriginal government hardbound copies in private hands. Part III by L.D.Callimahos was issued in 1977, 664 pp. and classified Secret and many deletionsmade for security reasons on the copy in our collection. An FOI law suitrevealed that no further volumes were produced.Īmong the many other important books are: Traité de Cryptographieby A. Eyraud, 1953 Systeme Des Chiffrierens by A. Figl,1926 Cours de Cryptographie by GénéralM. ![]() Givierge, 1932 Manuale Di Crittografia by Gen.
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