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David Kahn is a US historian, journalist and writer. He has written extensively on the history of cryptography and military intelligence. His first book was The Codebreakers (1967). Research for the first edition was completed in the early 60s, and so it does not include information which became available later than that time. In particular, the story of cryptography in WWII was still then effectively classified. The most recent edition has some additional material on events after the first edition was published, but the new material is quite limited.
Kahn traces his interest in cryptography to reading Fletcher Pratt's Secret and Urgent as a boy
Kahn worked as a reporter and an op-ed editor for Newsday until 1998.
Kahn is a founding editor of the Cryptologia journal.
In 1995, he was selected as the scholar in residence at the National Security Agency.
Kahn has written several other books on selected aspects of cryptography and its history.
Kahn taught journalism for a few years at New York University.
Kahn was awarded a doctorate (DPhil) from Oxford University in 1974.
Kahn grew up in and currently lives in Great Neck. He is divorced from Susanne Fiedler and has two sons, Oliver and Michael.
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