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Essential Matters - History of the Cryptographic Branch of the People's Army of Vietnam 1945-1975 (with a Supplement Drawn from "The History of the Cryptographic Branch of the Border Guard, 1959-1989") (Paperback)
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Essential Matters - History of the Cryptographic Branch of the People's Army of Vietnam 1945-1975 (with a Supplement Drawn from "The History of the Cryptographic Branch of the Border Guard, 1959-1989") (Paperback)
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For more than 30 years, the Vietnamese revolutionary movement
successively fought Japan, France, South Vietnam, and the United
States of America in its successful struggle to establish an
independent and socialist Vietnam. Although many aspects of these
wars have been described and analyzed by both the winners and
losers, one significant topic has been almost entirely absent from
the discussion - the Vietnamese development and use of cryptography
to maintain their movement's communications security. "Essential
Matters: A History of the Cryptographic Branch of the People's Army
of Viet-Nam, 1945 - 1975," a translation of a 1990 Vietnamese
government publication, tells the story of how Vietnamese
cryptographers, through trial and error, developed an indigenous
cryptography, supplemented by China-trained experts who introduced
more sophisticated techniques to enhance their colleagues' efforts.
Many of the these revolutionaries were more conversant with French
because of that language's dominance in the colonial education
system, so they were forced to subject their own language to the
most basic analysis of structure, its specialized military and
technical vocabulary, the frequencies of its letters and words, and
its subsequent rendering for cryptographic and radio transmission
purposes, all encouraged at the local level by the revolutionary
leadership. The result was the employment of a multiplicity of
similar cipher systems, which presented a major challenge to the
movement's various military adversaries. "Essential Matters"
records the names of the individuals who performed this arduous
work under difficult conditions, describes their training, and
portrays their hardships and suffering - approximately 500
Vietnamese cryptographers, nearly 10 percent of those on duty as of
1972, were killed in the course of their duties. This remarkable
account, which includes a supplement drawn from "A History of the
Cryptographic Branch of the Border Guard" that extends the coverage
of Essential Matters by 14 years, into the cipher machine era,
provides a unique portrait of a little-known part of the Vietnamese
military and its contribution both to cryptography and the outcome
of the Indochina wars.
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