First time Quote by David Kahn

I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.

— Walter Schloss

“I tried all the basic approaches,” he said. “Including the one those teachers used to crack the cipher he sent to the papers. No…

— Christa Faust

“General Joseph O. Mauborgne, who became Chief Signal Officer in October, 1937. Mauborgne had long been interested in cryptology. In 1914, as a young…

— David Kahn

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

— Stanley Walker

“the most famous of all those who had an acquaintance with cryptology in the Middle Ages was an English customs official, amateur astronomer, and…

— David Kahn

“between 321 and 300 B.C., recommended that ambassadors use cryptanalysis to obtain intelligence: “If there is no possibility of carrying on any such conversation…

— David Kahn

“The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet…

— Georges Cuvier

“He had made a discovery of the first magnitude. It opened up an entirely new approach to physics, which led to statistical mechanics, to…

— Basil Mahon

“As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended, and the…

— Joseph O'Neill

“Detective Sergeant Jonathan Searle, a Cambridge-educated art historian who worked at Special Branch, the muscle behind British intelligence on national security and espionage.”

— Laney Salisbury

“What follows is a truthful account, as best I am able to provide it, of my role in the British deception operation, codenamed Windfall,…

— John le Carré

“Earl Moncrief, the butler, built his financial, procurement, and secret service organizations with the brute power of cash and a profound understanding of clever,…

— Kurt Vonnegut