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U.S. Army Guide to Code Breaking

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the terces-egassem-seog-ereh dept.

sebFlyte writes "From the introduction of this document, the U.S. Army's field manual guide to Cryptanalysis: 'This manual presents the basic principles and techniques of cryptanalysts and their relation to cryptography. Cryptanalytics is the art and science of solving unknown codes and ciphers.'"

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  1. Re:Yes, however...Mr. Gates by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 1, Redundant
    These are obviously the scribblings of a madman,

    Or the doodlings of a computer software billionaire.

    --
    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  2. Between Silk and Cyanide by valkraider · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If you are interested in how this stuff all works and came about in the first place, a really interesting book is "Between Silk and Cyanide" by Leo Marks.

    It was a really great read...