The Friedman Legacy: A Tribute to William and Elizebeth Friedman
by Edited by the Center for Cryptologic History
Foreword
To term this modest collection The Friedman Legacy requires both explanation and apologia. Of Friedman, as of Wren, it might well be said, "If you seek his monument, look around you" at the giant and far-flung corporate entity that represents American cryptology today. But a most tangible and rewarding form of his legacy for many of us has long been his "Lectures." First published within NSA in 1963, after serialization in a journal five years earlier, they were republished two years later by his first recruit into government service and the first commandant of the National Cryptologic School, the eminent cryptologist Frank Rowlett. In his Foreword to that edition, Mr. Rowlett described the lectures as ". . . the history of Cryptology ...
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