NSA Releases Secret Pre-History of Computers

[wraggster]

The National Security Agency has declassified an eye-opening pre-history of computers used for code-breaking between the 1930s and 1960s. The 344 page report, entitled It Wasn't All Magic: The Early Struggle to Automate Cryptanalysis (http://www.governmentattic.org/8docs/NSA-WasntAllMagic_2002.pdf) (pdf), it is available on the Government Attic web site. Government Attic has also just posted a somewhat less declassified NSA compendium from 1993: A Collection of Writings on Traffic Analysis (http://www.governmentattic.org/8docs/NSA-TrafficAnalysisMonograph_1993.pdf).

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/06/24/1136255/nsa-releases-secret-pre-history-of-computers