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Joseph Mauborgne
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Image:Mauborgne.jpg right|Joseph Mauborgne
In the
history of cryptography, '''Joseph Oswald Mauborgne''' (
1881–
1971) co-invented the
one-time pad with
Gilbert Vernam of
Bell Labs. In
1914 he published the first recorded solution of the
Playfair cipher.
Mauborgne became a
Major General in the
United States Army, and in the period before Pearl Harbor was the Chief of the
Signal Corps. As a Captain just after
World War I,
In the
1920s and
1930s, Mauborgne pursued communication advancements in numerous research-and-development assignments, including a stint as chief of the Signal Corps Engineering and Research Division and as commander of the Signal Corps laboratory in the
NIST Bureau of Standards.
As Chief of Signal, Mauborgne supported technological development and oversaw the mass production of the SCR-268 and
SCR-270 Army
radars. Just a few months after he retired (September 30, 1941), two Signal Corps soldiers — using an SCR-270 radar at
Oahu, Hawaii in the early morning of December 7, 1941 — spotted Japanese aircraft on their way in to attack
Pearl Harbor.
General Mauborgne is a member of the
Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.
Category:Pre-computer cryptographers Mauborgne, Joseph
