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Codebook Shows an Encryption Form Dates Back to Telegraphs


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Codebook

Codebooks like this one from 1896 cut the cost of telegrams, which were charged by the word.

Steven Bellovin

If not for a computer scientist’s hobby of collecting old telegraph codebooks, a crucial chapter in modern cryptography might have been lost to history.

From The New York Times
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