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Princeton Cryptography Ideas

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1936

Alan Mathison TuringOctober 1936

Princeton University · Science / Technology

Writes from Princeton about his interest in constructing unusual cipher systems, showing that cryptography was already part of his technical thinking.

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Alan Mathison Turing

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