Cryptography translations : typescripts, 1924-1934.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Friedman, William F. (William Frederick), 1891-1969.

Contributor:

Givierge, Marcel.

Gyldén, Yves.

United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Division.

Cryptology Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

French

Swedish

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Cryptography.

World War, 1914-1918.

Cryptography.

Ciphers.

Genre:

Manuscripts, American.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Frederic C. Flindt, 1955.

Physical Description:

2 v

Other Title:

Problems of code.

Chifferbyråernas insatser i världskriget till lands.

The contribution of the cryptographic bureaus in the World War.

Place of Publication:

1924-1934.

Biography/History:

William F. Friedman was born in Russia and emigrated to the United States with his family as a child. Trained as a plant geneticist, he worked as a cryptologist in the private sector before joining the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, U.S. War Dept., in December 1919 as chief cryptanalyst.

Summary:

Bound typescripts (carbon copies) of English translations of one French and one Swedish work on cryptography. The translations were edited by Friedman and produced for the Signal Corps.

Notes:

Note on p. 1 of Marcel Givierge's Problems of code: "Translation of an article by Colonel Givierge, chief of the code section of the general staff, French Army. Forward.-This interesting and important article ... appeared in the June and July, 1924 numbers of the Revue Militaire Francaise. ... The translation was made by the translation section of the military intelligence division, General Staff, and edited, with notes, by W. F. Friedman, cryptanalyst, O.C.S.O."

Note on title page of Yves Gyldén's The contribution of the cryptographic bureaus in the World War: "Translated from the original Swedish by the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department General Staff, with minor amendments and notes added by Major William F. Friedman, and published in The Signal Corps Bulletin, Nos. 75-81, 1933-1934, War Department, Office Chief Signal Officer, Government Printing Office, Washington."