Gustavus J. Simmons
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Former Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Manager, Applied Mathematics Department, 1971–87. Researcher in command and control of nuclear weapons. Author of numerous articles on cryptology and authentication.
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Cryptology, science concerned with data communication and storage in secure and usually secret form. It encompasses both cryptography and cryptanalysis. The term cryptology is derived from the Greek kryptós (“hidden”) and lógos (“word”). Security obtains from legitimate users being able to…
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