From: bill.stewart@pobox.com
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 02:16:21 +0800
To: Jim Choate <cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: Civil War Crypto Question... (fwd)
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At 09:21 AM 12/22/1997 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
>> My impression from this and from the chapter summary is that the disk was
>> used for flag codes but not telegraphy.  For telegraphy the Union apparently
>> used a word-based route transposition that Friedman found unimpressive.
...
>Friedman? Who the hell is Friedman? None of my references has anyone by that
>named listed, let alone involved.

Friedman was the WWII / Korean War cryptographer who wrote some of the
main surveys of crypto at the time.  In particular, he wrote a 4-volume set
of books, some of which were declassified, and some which became declassified
after a lawsuit by John Gilmore.
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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