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Army's first cipher office broke the code on modern cryptology

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. -- When Ralph Van Deman established the War Department's intelligence organization shortly after the United States entered World War I, he was faced with the daunting task of ...
Nevada Appeal

Breaking the code on modern cryptology

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. — When Ralph Van Deman established the War Department’s intelligence organization shortly after the United States entered World War I, he was faced with the daunting task of ...
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Army Signal Corps Takes Control of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis. This Week in History, April 5

Fort Huachuca, Az. -The business of solving codes and ciphers had been an active field in the U.S. government since World War I when Ralph Van Deman realized he needed a cipher bureau as part of his ...
Ars Technica

Rusty but intact: Nazi Enigma cipher machine found in Baltic Sea

Divers scouring the Baltic Sea for discarded fishing nets have stumbled on the rarest of finds: an Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis to encode secret messages during World War II. The ...