“This is something I’ve never told anyone,” says David Kahn, between sips of cola at the Century Club in New York City. On a rainy, humid early evening in May, punctuated by the sound of the occasional car horn from the street below, he has been holding forth on one of his favorite subjects: Edward Hugh Hebern, a seminal figure in twentieth-century cryptography.
Hebern, Edward
Summer 1994 | Volume 10, Issue 1
“This is something I’ve never told anyone,” says David Kahn, between sips of cola at the Century Club in New York City. On a rainy, humid early evening in May, punctuated by the sound of the occasional car horn from the street below, he has been holding forth on one of his favorite subjects:…