Re: VMs: Random Text Generation

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:18 20/12/02 -0800, you wrote:
> I have the Aegean Park Press copy of Sacco ("Manual of Cryptography",
> "Translated from the original 'Manuale di Crittografia'").  Unfortunately
> the d'Imperio Fig. 39 does not appear in the translation.  D'Imperio
> says it's from Sacco 1947, p. 6, so I assume it would have appeared in
> the Introduction under "Various kinds of secret writing".  However, this
> is in the translation a short section in the front matter with no
> illustrations.  There's no Urbino mentioned in the references.

Rats. :-(

> I think we need an original Sacco for more detail on this one.

Though the Library of Congress doesn't have the 1947 Italian 3rd edition, 
it does have a French translation (from 1951), we might get lucky there:-

LC Control Number: 53017955
Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Brief Description: Sacco, Luigi
Manuel de cryptographie / L. Sacco.
Éd. française par J. Brès d'après la 3. éd. italienne rev. par l'auteur ; 
préf. du Lieutenant-Colonel R. Léger.
Paris : Payot, 1951.
375 p., [15] leaves of plates (14 fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.

CALL NUMBER: Z104 .S314 1951
-- Request in: Jefferson or Adams Bldg General or Area Studies Reading Rms 

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