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Breaking Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park: An edition of I.J. Good, D. Michie and G. Timms: General Report on Tunny with Emphasis on Statistical Methods (1945)
James A. Reeds
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Description for Breaking Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park: An edition of I.J. Good, D. Michie and G. Timms: General Report on Tunny with Emphasis on Statistical Methods (1945)
Hardcover. This is a critical, learned edition of the General Report on Tunny with Emphasis on Statistical Methods (aka The Newmanry Report), prepared in 1945 and declassified in 2000. The Report was a technical account of what the team of cryptanalysts did in their work at Bletchley Park during WWII. Editor(s): Diffie, Whitfield; Field, J. V.; Reeds, James A. Num Pages: 792 pages. BIC Classification: GPJ; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 262 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1530.
This book is an edition of the General Report on Tunny with commentary that clarifies the often difficult language of the GRT and fitting it into a variety of contexts arising out of several separate but intersecting story lines, some only implicit in the GRT.
This book is an edition of the General Report on Tunny with commentary that clarifies the often difficult language of the GRT and fitting it into a variety of contexts arising out of several separate but intersecting story lines, some only implicit in the GRT.
- Explores the likely roots of the ideas entering into the Tunny cryptanalysis
- Includes examples of original worksheets, and printouts of the Tunny-breaking process in action
- Presents additional commentary, biographies, glossaries, essays, and bibliographies
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
792
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780470465899
SKU
V9780470465899
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99-50
About James A. Reeds
James A. Reeds is an applied mathematician and is currently on the research staff at the Center for Communications Research, Princeton, NJ. Whitfield Diffie is best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of public key cryptography. Since 1993, he has worked largely on public policy aspects of cryptography. His position in opposition to limitations on the ... Read more
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