Recommended Movie: "Sebastian" 1968.

[Peter Fairbrother]

On 18/08/15 03:46, jim bell wrote:
> Since people seem to be recommending things, I recommend the movie
> "Sebastian".   Dirk Bogarde, Susannah York.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIK3OYnD9MY
>
> Out of date even when it was made, I think it really represents the
> cryptography situation as of the 1930's.


Based on a screenplay by Leo Marks - author of Between Silk and Cyanide: 
A Codemaker's War 1941-1945.

Essential reading. Leo was the codemaker for SOE. All hand ciphers and 
agents.

He wasn't at Bletchley - who called him "the one who got away" - though, 
and so no machine ciphers.

The Silk in the title was for OTPs which could be hidden in clothing 
from Gestapo/SS searches.


As I said, essential reading.



-- Peter Fairbrother