12/10/2024

Chinese Enciphered Code Analyzed in Arlington Hall

I wrote something about Chinese enciphered codes in "Chinese Cryptography: 1871-1945", but the materials available are relatively scanty. Now, I learned in Liza Mundy, Code Girls that a Chinese enciphered code was among those analyzed in Arlington Hall during WWII:
"There was a French code called Jellyfish, a Chinese enciphered code they called Jabberwocky, another they called Gryphon." (p.154 of the Japanese edition)
The source given is a weekly report (RG 0457, 9032 (A1), Box 1114, "Signal Security Agency Weekly Reports, Jan to Oct 1943", Weekly Report for Section B-III, July 9, 1943). I wonder whether the original materials are not preserved.

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