cryptography
7 photos tagged cryptography, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.
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- todaysdocument
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Photos
Photos tagged cryptography:
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Recent uploads
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Zimmermann Telegram from U.S. National Archives uploaded February 2011
Ian Fleming's Operation Ruthless from The National Archives UK uploaded October 2009
Letter Written in Cipher on Mourning Paper by Rose Greenhow (Front) from U.S. National Archives uploaded July 2009
Letter Written in Cipher on Mourning Paper by Rose Greenhow (Reverse) from U.S. National Archives uploaded July 2009
Portrait of Lyon Playfair, Baron Playfair (1818-1898), Chemistry from Smithsonian Institution uploaded June 2008
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Identified! [American cryptographer William Friedman with a Western Electric-manufactured printing telegraph]
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TVL1970 said:
Famed American cryptographer William Friedman with a (AT&T subsidiary) Western Electric-manufactured printing telegraph. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Friedman See the same photo on Page 3 of the below publication: Mucklow, Timothy J., The SIGABA/ECM II Cipher Machine: “A Beautiful Idea.” Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2015. 44 pages, Papercover. www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/about/cryptologic-herita...
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Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks TVL1970! An identification of both the man and the gadget. Our catalogers will add this information to the catalog record.
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Chuck Walla said:
Brilliant identification. Poor guy looks like his charge number just got cut off.
Zimmermann Telegram
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Flickr Foundation said:
This photo is one of the most-viewed Flickr Commons images on Wikimedia Commons with 346,275 views in October 2023. 🎉 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zimmermann_Telegram.jpeg
