David Kahn

David Kahn (1930-2024) was an American historian, journalist, and writer who specialized in the history of cryptography and military intelligence. His seminal work, *The Codebreakers – The Story of Secret Writing* (1967), is widely considered the definitive account of cryptography history. He worked as a reporter and op-ed editor for Newsday until his retirement in 1998 and served as scholar-in-residence at the National Security Agency.