Code warriors
Subtitle: NSA's codebreakers and the secret intelligence war against the Soviet Union
By: Stephen Budiansky
Publisher: Knopf; Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780385352666
Subjects: United States; United States. National Security Agency; Cryptography; Foreign relations; History
Description: "A sweeping history of the NSA and its codebreaking achievements from World War II through the Cold War shares insights into the challenges faced by cryptanalysts and their role in some of the most complicated events of the twentieth century, "--NoveList.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-372) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Russian problem; title: Unbreakable codes; title: Learning to lie; title: Digital dawn; title: Shooting wars; title: "An old mule skinner"; title: Brains versus bugs; title: Days of crisis; title: Reinventing the wheel; title: Brute force and legerdemain; title: Epilogue: the collapse of the wall, and a verdict.