Cryptology Documentaries

NSA building at Fort Meade

Cryptology is a facscinating science with an interesting history. Unfortunately, few people know what cryptology actually is, and what it means to us. Codemakers and codebreakers influenced history for thousands of years and determined politics and the outcome of many wars in the past, and it will continue to do so in the future.

One of the reasons that cryptology is unknown to the public is that it has been a very obscure science for ages. Even today, only a few books found their way to the general public and documentaries about cryptology on TV science or history channels are most rare. Nonetheless, some very interesting documentaries exist and it is a pity that they are seldom showed on TV.

Discovery Top Secret NSA 1997

It would be nice if the TV programmers aired such documentaries a little bit more so that cryptologists were placed a little bit more in the well deserved spotlight. Their actual work however will rarely see daylight.