A committee of the United States Intelligence Board concluded that the book was "a possibly valuable support to foreign COMSEC authorities" and recommended "further low-key actions as possible, but short of legal action, to discourage Mr. The book was to include information on the National Security Agency (NSA), and according to author James Bamford writing in 1982, the agency attempted to stop its publication and considered publishing a negative review of Kahn's work in the press to discredit him. He began writing it part-time, at one point quitting his regular job to work on it full-time. Kahn, then a newspaper journalist, was contracted to write a book on cryptography in 1961. William Crowell, the former deputy director of the National Security Agency, was quoted in Newsday as saying "Before he (Kahn) came along, the best you could do was buy an explanatory book that usually was too technical and terribly dull." Most of the editing, German translating, and insider contributions were from American World War II cryptographer Bradford Hardie III. It is widely regarded as the best account of the history of cryptography up to its publication. The Codebreakers comprehensively chronicles the history of cryptography from ancient Egypt to the time of its writing. It was the origin of his monumental book, The Codebreakers. It was during this period that he wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine about two defectors from the National Security Agency. He also served as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris in the 1960s. After graduation, he worked as a reporter at Newsday. In 1969, Kahn married Susanne Fiedler they are now divorced. Kahn is a founding editor of the Cryptologia journal. Kahn has said he traces his interest in cryptography to reading Fletcher Pratt's Secret and Urgent as a boy. Biographyĭavid Kahn was born in New York City to Florence Abraham Kahn, a glass manufacturer, and Jesse Kahn, a lawyer.
Kahn's first published book, The Codebreakers - The Story of Secret Writing (1967), has been widely considered to be a definitive account of the history of cryptography. He has written extensively on the history of cryptography and military intelligence. Febru) is an American historian, journalist, and writer. The Codebreakers - The Story of Secret Writingĭavid Kahn (b.
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