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NSA Releases Secret Pre-History of Computers

Posted by samzenpus on from the please-forget-about-that-other-stuff dept.

An anonymous reader writes "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)"

3 of 167 comments (clear)

  1. Re:First pwned! by egcagrac0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not if you did it in a VM running a LiveCD...

  2. Re:Hmm by chill · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ummm...nope.

    Requested date: 04-August-2012
    Released date: 29-May-2013
    Posted date: 24-June-2013

    Requested date: 02-August-2012
    Released date: 11-June-2013
    Posted date: 24-June-2013

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  3. Re:"This site has been suspended" by vtTom · · Score: 3, Informative

    Found the document here... http://cryptome.org/2013/06/NSA-WasntAllMagic_2002.pdf