[24870] in Cypherpunks
Re: Book review: Codebreakers, the Inside Story of Bletchley Park
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Harmon)
Fri Jan 6 02:02:44 1995
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 00:54:35 -0600 (CST)
From: Dan Harmon <harmon@tenet.edu>
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@netcom.com>
Cc: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com, cypherpunks@toad.com, gnu@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199501040551.VAA12193@netcom13.netcom.com>
Another book that has not been mentioned is "Alan Turing the Enigma" by
Andrew Hodges. It gives, what I think, is a good analysis of Turing's
work, alot of which is still classified, what role Hut 6 played (theater
traffic analysis, bombe development, and other projects after Hut 6) , and
his subquent role in the development computing.
Hodges does a good job of putting Turing in historical and
mathematical/cryptological perspective.
Alas, like some of the books that are sugguested, it is recently out of
print ( look for it in the remainder/used book stores).
Dan
