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Jan 15, 2021 · Armed with a sharp mind and nerves of steel, Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892–1980) cracked hundreds of ciphers during her career as America’s first female cryptanalyst, successfully busting...
- Nora Mcgreevy
Jan 6, 2021 · The 21st-century NSA has gone far beyond its original mission of breaking enemy codes. It is the pointed end of the spear of military and intelligence operations in the information age.
- American Experience
Nov 14, 2014 · 1. The Vigenère Cipher. Giovan Battista Bellaso, an Italian cryptologist who worked in the court of a 16th-century Italian cardinal, is believed to have originally devised his...
Oct 10, 2017 · Over the last 100 years, women have had significant, high-level roles in breaking secret codes – from Nazi ciphers to the secret messages of Al Capone’s gang – but their contribution is only ...
Jan 11, 2021 · Elizebeth S. Friedman was one of the brightest codebreakers of her generation. But her biggest achievement—uncovering a Nazi spy ring—was kept secret her whole life.
- Suyin Haynes
Oct 11, 2017 · The majority of America’s code breakers in World War II were women. In “Code Girls,” Liza Mundy narrates their untold story.
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Oct 5, 2017 · It was a woman code breaker who, in 1945, became the first American to learn that World War II had officially ended. The Army and Navy's code breakers had avidly followed messages leading up to...
