The National Security Agency’s Center for Cryptologic History (CCH) preserves and advances understanding of cryptologic history for NSA/CSS, the United States Intelligence Community, the Department of Defense, other government agencies, academia, and the general public. The CCH provides objective, meaningful historical support to Agency leadership and the workforce to enhance decision-making, cryptologic knowledge, and esprit de corps. The CCH also serves as NSA/CSS’s historical outreach to academia and the general public. It produces unclassified histories of cryptology that can be obtained. NSA’s Center for Cryptologic History (CCH) sponsors the Symposium on Cryptologic History every two years.
Historians from the CCH and other branches of the U.S. government, as well as distinguished historians from American and foreign academic institutions and veterans of the profession, gather for two days of discussions on this arcane but fascinating subject.
With this year’s theme, “Cryptology and Community,” as a guide, the presenters and guests will consider many of the various communities that perform cryptologic activities and those that are affected by it – the defense and intelligence communities, certainly, but also legal, technical, media, and historical communities, as well as the general public.
Past symposiums have featured path-breaking scholarship and new ways of considering our cryptologic heritage. The mix of practitioners and scholars has always produced spirited exchanges, and in the past this has generated both heat and light. This year’s symposium promises to do the same.
The lunches and refreshment breaks will be held at the conference facilities of the Applied Physics Lab, providing outstanding opportunities to engage in lively discussions and to interact with leading cryptologic historians.
CCH staff consists of professional historians who are veterans of cryptologic operations. CCH can be reached at the address below:
National Security Agency
Center for Cryptologic History
Suite 6886
Fort Meade, MD 20755
301-688-2336
history@nsa.gov
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