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Hebern, Edward

“This is something I’ve never told anyone,” says David Kahn, between sips of cola at the Century Club in New York City. On a rainy, humid early evening in May, punctuated by the sound of the occasional car horn from the street below, he has been holding forth on one of his favorite subjects: Edward Hugh Hebern, a seminal figure in twentieth-century cryptography.

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Summer 1994 | Volume 10, Issue 1
“This is something I’ve never told anyone,” says David Kahn, between sips of cola at the Century Club in New York City. On a rainy, humid early evening in May, punctuated by the sound of the occasional car horn from the street below, he has been holding forth on one of his favorite subjects:…

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