TheCodeBreakers
Extracting an intelligible message from
ciphertext seemed to be exactly the same thing as obtaining knowledge
by examining the flight of birds, the location of stars and planets, the
length and intersections of lines in the hand, the entrails of sheep, the
position of dregs in a teacup. In all of these, the wizard-like operator
draws sense from grotesque, unfamiliar, and apparently meaningless
signs. He makes known the unknown.
All this stained cryptology so deeply with the dark hues of esoterism
that some of them still persist, noticeably coloring the public image of
cryptology. People still think cryptanalysis mysterious. Book dealers still
list cryptology under "occult." And in 1940 the United States conferred
upon its Japanese diplomatic cryptanalyses the codename MAGIC.
In none of the secret writing thus far was there any sustained
cryptanalysis. Occasional cases, yes. But of any science of cryptanalysis,
there was nothing. Only cryptography existed. And therefore cryptology,
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