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war, and Sweden did not want to be caught napping. Later she used the
intelligence to keep abreast of a variety of political events.
Except for a brief interlude back about the turn of the century, when
R. Torpadie so impressed the Swedish authorities by solving a
nomenclator of 1632 for a historical study that they commissioned him
to set up a cryptologic bureau called Room 100, Swedish cryptology got
its real start with Yves Gylden. His father, Olof, the head of the Royal
Naval School, had been financially interested in Arvid Damm's cipher
machines. Yves, who got his un-Swedish first name from his French
mother, became cryptologically interested and subjected them to every
possible cryptanalytic test The interest thus kindled
in cryptology remained with him throughout a business career with
the pharmaceutical firm of Astra, founded by his grandfather. In 1931, a
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