Review of Memories of My Work at the Cipher Bureau of the General Staff Second Department 1930–1945 by Marian Rejewski

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Acknowledgements

I thank Jan Bury for obtaining contact information for the publisher:

Adam Mickiewicz University Press

ul. Fredry 10

61-701 Poznan, Poland

E-mail: [email protected]

Web address: http://press.amu.edu.pl

Notes

¹ Enigma ou la plus grande énigme de la guerre 1939–1945, which was published in 1973.

²Magdalena Jaroszewska (Editor-in-Chief), Marek Grajek, Jerzy Jaworski, and Tomasz Kubial.

⁴This conversation was recorded on 24 July 1978. The conversation also appears as [16].

⁵This paper was written in 1977.

⁶This paper appeared first in Polish in 1980. A slightly different version appears as [13], which includes two Afterwords, one by Cipher A. Deavours and another by I. J. (Jack) Good.

⁷This appendix was an appendix to the Polish version of Enigma. A translation by Christopher Kasparek also appeared in Cryptologia [14].

³Rejewski's “Memories” is a reference for Enigma.

⁸See “The Polish, French and British Contributions to the Breaking of the Enigma” [5, pp. 487–495].

⁹Another reference for the historical aspects of the Polish codebreakers is [9]. One of the authors, Kozaczuk, is a historian who interviewed Rejewski and whose 1967 book Battle for the Secrets (in Polish) first told of the work of the Poles. A recent book by Z. J. Kapera in the Enigma Series [7] tells the story of the Polish codebreakers in France. Kapera's book is brief and includes a bit too much detail about the number of messages decrypted, etc. The review in Cryptologia [2] lists the other publications in the Enigma Series.

¹⁰The editors supply a proof in Note 35.

¹¹See, for example, [10], [11], and [12].

¹²See [3] for a description of the machine.

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Chris Christensen

Chris Christensen teaches mathematics and cryptology at Northern Kentucky University. His first encounter with the theory of Enigma was in Robert Harris' novel Enigma.