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Donald P. de Brier is an avid military historian with a legal and military background. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in history and was then commissioned as a lieutenant in the US Navy. He served aboard a US destroyer, with temporary additional duties on several military intelligence projects.

He then graduated from University of Pennsylvania School of Law and began practicing law in a large New York law firm, which firm had once been chaired by a former Director of the CIA. The author later spent four years in London working for British Petroleum where he retained some of his connections to the British and US military intelligence. During his years of law practice, he was recognized as a leader in the recruitment, tr
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The Enigma Code: Unraveling the Mystery of WW2's Most Secretive Cipher

During World War II, the German military employed a complex encryption system known as the Enigma code. This cryptographic system, used for secure communication, relied on a series of electro-mechanical rotors to scramble plaintext messages into unreadable ciphertext.

The Enigma machine itself consisted of a keyboard, a series of interchangeable rotors, a plugboard, and a lightboard. Each key press Read more of this blog post »
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