TheCodeBreakers
It was this vital importance of cryptology
that was new in the world. No one could have articulated in 1919 the
tribute that Representative Clarence B. Hancock offered at the end of
1945 on the floor of the Congress of the United States: "I believe that our
cryptographers [cryptanalysts] ... did as much to bring that war to a
successful and early conclusion as any other group of men."
For in World War II cryptology became a nation's most important
source of secret intelligence.
16 Russkaya Kriptologiya
ALTHOUGH SECRET WRITING appears in Russia in the simple letter-
substitutions of 12th- and 13th-century manuscripts, akin to those of
medieval France and Germany, political cryptography seems to have first
come to the country under the Westernizing influence of Peter the Great.
Among the Western innovations that he brought to the new Russia
was the exceedingly valuable one of black chambers. Situated, like those
of England, France, and Austria, in the post offices, they employed the
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