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Re: New Puzzle Palace? Re: CAQ - Secret ...
At 1:08 PM 1/15/96, [email protected] wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Jan 1996, James M. Cobb wrote:
>
>> James Bamford
>> The Puzzle Palace (with a new Afterword)
>> Penguin Books
>> 1983
>
>Schneier's new bibliography mentions a second edition of the book published
>in 1995. Is this really a substantively new edition with more material or is
>it just being repackaged with a new Afterword? I'm just wondering whether
>it is worth buying to someone who has the original.
The new edition is supposed to be a substantial rewrite, updating the book
to include a lot of the recent stuff on the NSA. Don't quote me, but I
think Bamford has a co-author, though I've forgotten who it is.
I paid the princely sum of $16.95 in 1982--expensive for a book back
then--for "The Puzzle Palace," and read it cover-to-cover (well, I guess I
skimmed the footnotes). Even before I got into crypto in a big way, I knew
this stuff was important to me.
I certainly plan to buy the Second Edition.
--Tim May
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