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In the 1840's, political gales blew down a great deal of
the remaining absolutism and the totalitarian agencies that propped it
up. Europe's new birth of freedom tolerated no government opening of
mail. In England, a tremendous public and parliamentary outcry over the
surreptitious opening of letters forced the government to discontinue the
interception of diplomatic correspondence in June of 1844. That October
the government dissolved the Decyphering Branch, pensioning off Willes
and Lovell. In Austria, the Geheime Kabinets-Kanzlei closed its doors in
1848. In France, the Cabinet Noir, which had been withering ever since
the Revolution, passed away as well in that convulsive year. And in that
same decade, the same vast social forces that ended the era of the black
chambers simultaneously fostered an invention that transformed
cryptography.
7. The Contribution of the Dilettantes
THE TELEGRAPH made cryptography what it is today. Samuel F. B. Morse
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