Cryptography during the French and American Wars in Vietnam
@article{Phan2017CryptographyDT, title={Cryptography during the French and American Wars in Vietnam}, author={Duong Hieu Phan and Neal Koblitz}, journal={Cryptologia}, year={2017}, volume={41}, pages={491 - 511} }
ABSTRACT After Vietnam’s Declaration of Independence on 2 September 1945, the country had to suffer through two long, brutal wars, first against the French and then against the Americans, before finally becoming a unified country free of colonial domination in 1975. The authors’ purpose is to examine the role of cryptography in those two wars. Despite the far greater technological resources of their opponents, the communications intelligence specialists of the Việt Minh, the National Liberation…
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