NSA
NSA BEFORE SUPER COMPUTERS
DOCID.: 3575750(U)Before Super-Computers:NSA And Computer Development(U) At the time of World War I, commercial and government inventors beganexperimenting with electromechanical machines to encipher and decipher messages. Bythe outbreak of the Second World War, all major combatants had adopted sophisticatedcipher machines for at least a portion of their communications security programs. At thesame time, Great Britain and the United States, partners in cryptanalysis, developedmachines of increas...
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