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The Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British WW2 group infiltrating Reich-dominated Europe, had during the War's early and middle years a continuing problem in certain parts of France. They would train new agents, drop them into French territory, note their contact with a local agent... and they were lost, presumed captured or killed. Two things needed to happen fast: first, a new network had to be built so fresh agents would not be compromised by the older, discovered network. And second, a code generation method must be implemented that did not give a field agent knowledge of how other field agents generated similar messages into encrypted form (knowledge that could be extracted by torture). The answer to the second problem was called a "one time pad", a method still in use today and which had life-saving results almost immediately in the Allied war effort.
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Biography, British Personal narratives, Cryptographers, Cryptography, Great Britain, Personal narratives, British, Secret service, World War, 1939-1945, Special Operations Executive, Gro©britannien, Erlebnisbericht, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Weltkrieg (1939-1945), Kryptologie, Autobiographie, New York Times reviewed, World war, 1939-1945, cryptography, World war, 1939-1945, secret service, great britain, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, british, Great britain, biography, History, Geheime diensten, SOE, Geheimschrift, Tweede Wereldoorlog, Great Britain. Special Operations Executive, FictionPeople
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
September 12, 2000, Free Press
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Between silk and cyanide: a codemaker's story 1941-1945
1999, HarperCollins
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000653063X 9780006530633
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Between silk and cyanide: the story of SOE's code war
1998, HarperCollins
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Between silk and cyanide: a codemaker's war, 1941-1945
1998, Free Press
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"In January 1942 I was escorted to the war by my parents in case I couldn't find it or met with an accident on the way."
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