Army Cryptanalysis manual online

The US Army's Field Manual on Basic Cryptanalysis (FM 34-40-2), dated
September 1990 is available for downloading as an Acrobat PDF file from:

http://www.atsc-army.org/cgi-win/$atdl.exe/fm/34-40-2/default.htm

Fairly classic in nature (substitution, transposition, and code systems).
Huge files (so far, at 28.8, after about an hour and a half, I've only been
able to grab the table of contents and a couple of appendices - some
kind-hearted person with a T1 or greater may want to get everything, then
zip and mirror to save us bandwidth challenged folks the pain).

Also, for the complete listings of almost 300 downloadable FMs through the
Army's
Digital Training Library (ATDL), check out:

http://www.atsc-army.org/cgi-win/$atdl.exe?type=fm&header=%2Fatdl%2Fbrowse%2
Ffm.htm

Have fun!

Joel

Note: This site isn't wholly reliable.  It seems to regularly go up and
down, and sometimes the bandwidth is terrible.  Probably worth your
patience though.

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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Joel McNamara wrote:

> Fairly classic in nature (substitution, transposition, and code systems).
> Huge files (so far, at 28.8, after about an hour and a half, I've only been
> able to grab the table of contents and a couple of appendices - some
> kind-hearted person with a T1 or greater may want to get everything, then
> zip and mirror to save us bandwidth challenged folks the pain).

Only took me 5 minutes.

But then, both Stanford and HLC are BARRNet customers. The bottleneck, as
usual, seems to be the Bay Area NAP. 

Too damn many Internet users around here.

I don't think setting up file service here would make any difference.

-rich

Joel had written regarding:

> The US Army's Field Manual on Basic Cryptanalysis (FM 34-40-2), dated
> September 1990 is available for downloading as an Acrobat PDF file from:
> 
> http://www.atsc-army.org/cgi-win/$atdl.exe/fm/34-40-2/default.htm

There is now a more or less complete copy in:

	http://www.umich.edu/~umich/fm-34-40-2/

If I can find a copy of the acrobat viewer that works (I
downloaded an AIX version, only to discover that it doesn't
work under AIX 3.2.5.  Grrr.), I'll put a postscript version
up as well.

Unfortunately, as Joel notes, the original site is definitely both
slow and flakey - so I had to guess as to the order of all the
files...

				-Marcus Watts
				UM ITD PD&D Umich Systems Group

Several people wrote to say (variously) that ghostscript could
deal with PDF, and that xpdf could also do the same.  In fact, I
did compile a version of ghostscript 2.6.4, a long time
back.  Unfortunately, it doesn't support PDF.  However, I
did find and successfully build xpdf 0.6, and so I have now managed to
view the PDF files, convert the thing into postscript, and to print
the results.  So,

	http://www.umich.edu/~umich/fm-34-40-2/

now has postscript, as well as PDF, and I also made .tar.gz
files of each.

The results I printed were certainly readable, but one caveat:
the whole thing is designed to be printed on two-sided paper (&
presumably bound), so some of the sections are supposed to start
on the back side of the sheet from the previous section.

				-Marcus Watts
				UM ITD PD&D Umich Systems Group