Malcolm Freed

Former GCHQ archivist who spent eleven years cataloguing declassified signals intelligence before realizing the public stories were more interesting than the classified ones. Malcolm covers the history of cryptanalysis and cipher-breaking with a spy novelist's pacing, always reminding readers that behind every broken code was a humaneli who paid a price. He once described RSA's invention as 'the second time it was invented, and the first time it was allowed to exist.'