Kerckhoffs’ history and principles of military cryptography, translated and adnotated.

Since there doesn’t seem be a French-English translation of Auguste Kerckhoff’si seminal article on military cryptography on any of the major search engines, what follows is an admittedly crude effort in this direction : From La cryptographie militaire, Journal des sciences militaires, vol. IX, January 1883 :ii MILITARY CRYPTOGRAPHY I. Cryptography in the military : […]