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David Kahn


Born
in New York City, New York, The United States
February 07, 1930

Died
January 23, 2024

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A specialist on the history of cryptography and military intelligence, David Kahn worked as a reporter and op-ed editor for Newsday until his retirement in 1998, and was selected in 1995 as scholar-in-residence at the National Security Agency. Kahn earned a D.Phil in modern German history from Oxford University in 1974 under the supervision of the then-Regius professor of modern history, Hugh Trevor-Roper.

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“Do it because it needs to be done. Do it to make your world better…just a little at a time.”
David Kahn, Cape, Spandex, Briefcase: Leadership Lessons from Superheroes

“The multiple human needs and desires that demand privacy among two or more people in the midst of social life must inevitably lead to cryptology wherever men thrive and wherever they write. Cultural diffusion seems a less likely explanation for its occurrence in so many areas, many of them distant and isolated.”
David Kahn, The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet

“the use of atbash in the Bible sensitized the monks and scribes of the Middle Ages to the idea of letter substitution. And from them flowed the modern use of ciphers—as distinct from codes—as a means of secret communication.”
David Kahn, The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet

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