Interesting articles

From the ‘Journal of Slavic Military Studies’:

1). ‘On the Role of Soviet Intelligence During the Preparation of the Red Army for the Summer Campaign of 1943’ by Valerii Nikolaevic Zamulin.

2). ‘Conscious Movement Toward Armageddon: Preparation of the Third World War in Orders of theUSSR War Ministry, 1946–1953’ by Alexander Gogun.

German cipher security reports from 1944

I have uploaded the following documents to my TICOM folder:

1). Report titled: ‘Überprüfung der Sicherheit eigener Geheimschriften’ dated 25 August 1944.

Source: Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart - Kapsel 137 / 14.

2). Report titled: ‘Niederschrift der Besprechung über Chiffrierfragen - 15.11.44’ dated 21 November 1944.

Source: German Foreign Ministry’s Political Archive - TICOM collection – file Nr 1.620 – ‘1938/45 Korrespondenz Dr. Hüttenhain’.

Histocrypt 2019 proceedings

International Conference on Historical Cryptology 2019 proceedings

Interesting article on the German codebreakers of WWII

German mathematicians and cryptology in WWII by Frode Weierud and Sandy Zabell.

Histocrypt 2019 program

The program for the International Conference on Historical Cryptology 2019 has been posted.

For me the more interesting presentations (based on the titles) are:

4. Eugen Antal, Pavol Zajac and Otokar Grošek: Cryptology in the Slovak State During WWII

5. Dermot Turing: The Typex Scare of 1943

6. George Lasry: A Practical Meet-in-the-Middle Attack on SIGABA

I hope they post their proceedings at their site like last year.

Update

In the essays French Hagelin cipher machines and The French War Ministry’s FLD code I added information from the ‘Bulletin de l’ARCSI’ articles  ‘Essai d'historique du Chiffre’. Specifically in the paragraphs ‘French Army codes and ciphers’ and ‘French military codes and the Battle of France’.

Information on French codes and ciphers of WWII

Two very interesting articles from the ‘Bulletin de l’ARCSI’:

1). Bulletin N°3 1975: Essai d'historique du Chiffre (Add. N°3) by Général Ribadeau-Dumas.

2). Bulletin N°4 1976: Essai d'historique du Chiffre (N°5) by Général Ribadeau-Dumas.

Update

In Compromise of State Department communications in WWII I made the following correction. I had written that the M-325 SIGFOY cipher machine was introduced into service in the second half of 1944, however that was not correct.

According to NARA - RG 59 - Purport Lists for the Department of State Decimal File 1910-1944 – microfilm 611 - 119.25 MC-325 the device was distributed to foreign posts in the second half of 1944 but the keylists were for the period January-June 1945. Thus the device could not have been used in 1944 by the State Department.