It was formidable, and it was deadly. The nazi Enigma cipher machine, or rather the code that came from it would also have remained indeterminable had an operator not made a very simple error. In this collection of several dozen papers on the machine and its implications in a variety of disciplines, ranging from history to memoir and even foreign r

The essence of cryptology is the making and breaking of codes and ciphers. This is the second volume of articles (the first was titled Cryptologia yesterday, today and tomorrow ) culled from Cryptologia (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN). The articles are divided into five sectio