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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...
- American Cryptanalyst Elizabeth Smith Friedman
- Polish Codebreaker Marian Rejewski
- Wwii Bletchley Park Codebreaker Joan Clarke
- American NSA Codebreaker Leo Rosen
- The Black Women Codebreakers of Arlington Hall Station
Groundbreaking codebreaker and Shakespeare enthusiast Elizebeth Friedman was admiring one of the Bard’s folios at Chicago’s Newberry Library when a contact offered to introduce her to George Fabyan. The eccentric millionaire was convinced Sir Francis Bacon had planted a cipher within Shakespeare’s texts indicating Bacon was the true author of Shake...
After graduating with a degree in mathematics, Marian Adam Rejewski taught at a Polish university and worked part-time at a Cipher Bureau decoding intercepted German radio transmissions. The German-speaking cryptologist continued his work in Warsaw as the Nazis gained power in the 1930s and eventually used documents obtained by French intelligence ...
Joan Clarke, once engaged to Alan Turing, was a key member of Britain’s Bletchley Park codebreakers, working alongside Turing and Hugh Alexander in Hut 8 where they broke the German cipher system Enigma. The London-born mathematician won a scholarship to Cambridge, where she gained a double first degree in mathematics although that was just a title...
While the British codebreakers were hard at work, American ROTC graduate Leo Rosen was called up to active duty with the Army Signal Intelligence Service (SIS). American codebreakers had devised a ‘paper and pencil’ method to solve one aspect of the Japanese machine cipher system known as ‘Purple’. Without having ever seen Tokyo’s cipher system, Ro...
While little is known about the top-secret Black Women Codebreakers of Arlington Hall Station, the unit played a critical role in WWII. They helped Allied forces target Axis leaders and enemy ships, and they are believed to have helped coordinate the D-Day invasion. Their command center was Arlington Hall Station, a former women’s junior college. A...
Jun 19, 2012 · Alan Turing - the Bletchley Park codebreaker - would have been 100 years old on 23 June had he lived to the present day. To mark the occasion the BBC commissioned a week-long series of articles...
Oct 20, 2020 · Ellis and Turing are just two of the many code-breakers and code-builders in Behind the Enigma, the first authorized history of one of the world’s pre-eminent secret intelligence agencies,...
- Andrew Robinson
- 2020
5 Famous Code Breakers Who Changed the Course of History. Governments have risen and fallen due to the work of the world’s most notorious code breakers. They have taken impossible-looking cyphers and unlocked their secrets. From cracking the Nazi’s enigma code to intervening in colossal global events such as the Falklands War and the Cuba ...
May 30, 2019 · They were eccentric code-breakers hidden in a Victorian mansion. Their secret work underpinned the D-Day invasion and shaped World War Two.
Sep 21, 2018 · Alan Turing was a British mathematician and early computer scientist who had a fundamental role in the advancement of computer science. During World War II, Turing led a team of codebreakers to crack secret messages sent by the German military via the Enigma machine, thus shortening the war.
