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Re: New Book

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Subject: Re: New Book
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:25:36 -0400
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[email protected] writes:
>  I was in the local Barnes and Noble Bookstore and I saw a book that
>  looked interesting.  It is called The Ultimate Spy Book written by
>  H. Keith Melton and it contains a large wealth of information about
>  the writing and breaking of cyphers from the time of Queen Elizabeth
>  to the NSA.  It is about $30, but it is well worth it...

The canonical text on the subject remains "The Codebreakers", a book
which literally changed history given that Whit Diffie got interested
in crypto because of it. Sparked my interest and that of many others, too...

Perry

References:
- New Book
  - From: [email protected]

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