TheCodeBreakers
from Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India, Israel, Algeria, England,
Netherlands, Spain, Northern Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Argentina,
Venezuela, and Canada. Their professions are varied; included are
lawyers, editors, physicians, professors, civil servants, teachers,
housewives, printers, engineers, mathematicians, computer
programmers, a puzzle maker, and retired people. Most of the members
affect a nom de plume, or sort of sprightly codename, like B. NATURAL, AB
STRUSE, FRINKUS, DR. CRYPTOGRAM; this is a carry-over from the National
Puzzlers League and is alleged to increase informality among the
membership. Every other month, the association publishes The
Cryptogram, a magazine usually of 24 pages with articles on
cryptanalysis, new ciphers, and cryptologic history. It offers the members
several kinds of cryptograms for solution—monoalphabetics with word
divisions ranging from the simplest to the kind with the most twisted
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