Cryptologia ( IF 0.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-07 , DOI: 10.1080/01611194.2021.1921072 Robert Hanyok
Abstract
At the end of World War II, the Allied Cryptologic agencies in the U.S.A. and U.K. realized that valuable intelligence about Axis codebreaking and other analytic methods, as well as knowledge about Axis cryptography, could be lost, either through destruction or capture by the Soviet Union. A special organization, known as the Target Intelligence Committee (TICOM), was organized to retrieve this information. Special teams followed Allied forces into former Axis territory, gathered captured records and equipment and interrogated Axis cryptographers about their methods, successes, and failures. In the United States, this material was retained by the National Security Agency until major releases of WWII records to the National Archives, beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for approximately another 20 years. TICOM records constitute a critical resource to understanding the dynamics of the struggle between those charged with protecting communications, the secrets they hold, and those with the mandate to discover those secrets.
中文翻译:
来源和方法:在二战后联合技术调查和委员会的调查结果中搜索密码记录
摘要
二战结束时,美国和英国的联合密码学机构意识到,有关 Axis 密码破解和其他分析方法的宝贵情报以及有关 Axis 密码学的知识可能会因破坏或被苏联捕获而丢失. 组织了一个名为目标情报委员会 (TICOM) 的特殊组织来检索这些信息。特种部队跟随盟军进入前轴心国领土,收集捕获的记录和设备,并审问轴心国密码学家关于他们的方法、成功和失败。在美国,这些材料由国家安全局保留,直到二战记录向国家档案馆大规模发布,从 1990 年代中期开始,并持续了大约 20 年。