If you work (or play) in or near cryptography, it's very likely you owe a debt to the work of David Kahn, who passed away this week. wapo.st/47Weerz (gift link)

David Kahn, historian who cracked the code of cryptology, dies at 93

His bestselling 1967 book “The Codebreakers” established him as a preeminent scholar of signals intelligence.

Somehow overshadowed by Bamford even in his own obituary.

Thanks for posting this. Good to have you over here on this site.

Inspiring book. Someone insisted I read it my freshman year and I loved it. Thanks for sharing the article! It sounds like others of his books are fascinating too.

Thanks for posting, sadly I had never even heard of him before your post.

Thanks for sharing. Pretty sure I cited his work just this week in two different papers I'm working on.