The gambler and the scholars : Herbert Yardley, William & Elizebeth Friedman, and the birth of modern American cryptology / John F. Dooley.
2023
TK5102.94 .D66 2023
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Title
The gambler and the scholars : Herbert Yardley, William & Elizebeth Friedman, and the birth of modern American cryptology / John F. Dooley.
Author
Dooley, John F., author.
ISBN
303128318X electronic book
9783031283185 (electronic bk.)
9783031283178
9783031283185 (electronic bk.)
9783031283178
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-28318-5 doi
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TK5102.94 .D66 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
003.54092273
Summary
In May 1917, William and Elizebeth Friedman were asked by the U.S. Army to begin training officers in cryptanalysis and to decrypt intercepted German diplomatic and military communications. In June 1917, Herbert Yardley convinced the new head of the Army's Military Intelligence Division to create a code and cipher section for the Army with himself as its head. These two seminal events were the beginning of modern American cryptology, the growth of which culminated 35 years later with the creation of the National Security Agency. Each running their own cryptologic agencies in the 1920s, the Friedman-Yardley relationship was shattered after Yardley published a tell-all book about his time in military intelligence. Yet in the end, the work they all started in 1917 led directly to the modern American intelligence community. As they got older, they became increasingly irrelevant in the burgeoning American cryptologic fraternity. Topics and features: * Examines the lives of three remarkable and pioneering cryptologists * Offers fascinating insights into spies, codes and ciphers, rumrunners, poker, and military history * Sheds new light on interesting parts of the cryptologists' careers -- especially Elizebeth Friedman, whose work during World War II has just begun to be explored * Recounts several good stories, i.e., What if the Friedmans had gone to work for Herbert Yardley in his new Cipher Bureau in 1919? What if Yardley had moved back to Washington to work for William Friedman a decade later? This enjoyable book has wide appeal for: general readers interested in the evolution of American cryptology, American historians (particularly of World War I, the inter-war period, and World War II signals intelligence), and historians of--and general readers interested in--American military intelligence. It also can be used as an auxiliary text or recommended reading in introductory or survey courses in history or on the related topics. John F. Dooley is the William and Marilyn Ingersoll Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Previously, he spent more than 15 years in the software industry working for such companies as Bell Telephone Laboratories, McDonnell Douglas, IBM, and Motorola. His other Springer publications include Codes, Ciphers and Spies and the award-winning History of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis.
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History of computing (London, England), 2190-684X
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Beginnings - Herbert Yardley
3. Beginnings - William Friedman and Elizebeth Smith
4. The Great War - Meetings
5. Wars End
6. What Might Have Been
7. The Cipher Bureau: Early Days
8. The Lone Cryptologists: Escape from Riverbank
9. The Cipher Bureau: Success and Decline
10. The Lone Cryptologists: Washington Life
11. Cryptologic Endings and Beginnings
12. The American Black Chamber
13. A Pretty Young Woman in a Pink Dress
14. One Career After Another
15. Red and Purple
16. Yardley Abroad
17. The Friedmans at War - William
18. The Friedmans at War - Elizebeth
19. Yardley's War
20. Endings
21. Memories of Friedman and Yardley
Appendix - A Few Words of Cryptology
Bibliography
Photo and Illustration Credits.
2. Beginnings - Herbert Yardley
3. Beginnings - William Friedman and Elizebeth Smith
4. The Great War - Meetings
5. Wars End
6. What Might Have Been
7. The Cipher Bureau: Early Days
8. The Lone Cryptologists: Escape from Riverbank
9. The Cipher Bureau: Success and Decline
10. The Lone Cryptologists: Washington Life
11. Cryptologic Endings and Beginnings
12. The American Black Chamber
13. A Pretty Young Woman in a Pink Dress
14. One Career After Another
15. Red and Purple
16. Yardley Abroad
17. The Friedmans at War - William
18. The Friedmans at War - Elizebeth
19. Yardley's War
20. Endings
21. Memories of Friedman and Yardley
Appendix - A Few Words of Cryptology
Bibliography
Photo and Illustration Credits.