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Between silk and cyanide

a codemaker's war, 1941-1945

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An edition of Between Silk and Cyanide (1998)

Between silk and cyanide

a codemaker's war, 1941-1945

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The Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British WW2 group infiltrating Reich-dominated Europe, had during the War's early and middle years a continuing problem in certain parts of France. They would train new agents, drop them into French territory, note their contact with a local agent... and they were lost, presumed captured or killed. Two things needed to happen fast: first, a new network had to be built so fresh agents would not be compromised by the older, discovered network. And second, a code generation method must be implemented that did not give a field agent knowledge of how other field agents generated similar messages into encrypted form (knowledge that could be extracted by torture). The answer to the second problem was called a "one time pad", a method still in use today and which had life-saving results almost immediately in the Allied war effort.

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English
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613

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Biography, British Personal narratives, Cryptographers, Cryptography, Great Britain, Personal narratives, British, Secret service, World War, 1939-1945, Special Operations Executive, Gro©britannien, Erlebnisbericht, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Weltkrieg (1939-1945), Kryptologie, Autobiographie, New York Times reviewed, World war, 1939-1945, cryptography, World war, 1939-1945, secret service, great britain, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, british, Great britain, biography, History, Geheime diensten, SOE, Geheimschrift, Tweede Wereldoorlog, Great Britain. Special Operations Executive, Fiction

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Cover of: Between Silk and Cyanide
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
September 12, 2000, Free Press
Paperback in English - 1st Touchstone Ed edition
Cover of: Between silk and cyanide
Between silk and cyanide: a codemaker's story 1941-1945
1999, HarperCollins
in English
Cover of: Between silk and cyanide
Between silk and cyanide: the story of SOE's code war
1998, HarperCollins
in English
Cover of: Between silk and cyanide
Between silk and cyanide: a codemaker's war, 1941-1945
1998, Free Press
in English

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Includes index.

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New York, NY

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Dewey Decimal Class
940.54/8641
Library of Congress
D810.C88 M375 1999

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613 p. :
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613

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OL34060M
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betweensilkcyani00leom_1
ISBN 10
0684864223
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99017581
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21834
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OL66196W

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