Aegean Park Press was a

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based in

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, specializing in

cryptology Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or '' -logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adve ...

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and

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. The company's books on cryptology were "mostly reprints of fairly advanced texts, " cluding at least 16 books by World War II cryptologists

William F. Friedman William Frederick Friedman (September 24, 1891 – November 12, 1969) was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s. ...

, Lambros D. Callimahos, and

Solomon Kullback Solomon Kullback (April 3, 1907August 5, 1994) was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, along with Frank ...

. It published more than 50 books related to cryptology and a smaller number of books on other areas such as military intelligence." It did most of its business by direct mail. It was founded in 1973 by Wayne Barker (1922-2001). One of the company's ostensible customers has reported that it "ceased to exist either in lat 2011 or early 2012".

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reported it was out of business as of January 2014.

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External links

Aegean Park Press website
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