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Nov 14, 2014 · As The Imitation Game, a film charting the work of computing pioneer Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park during the second world war, is released, Stephanie Boland rounds up four other...
- 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...
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
Jun 19, 2012 · Turing's Treatise on Enigma helped break Germany's encrypted messages. Germany's Army, Air Force and Navy transmitted many thousands of coded messages each day during World War II. These...
From cracking the Nazi’s enigma code to intervening in colossal global events such as the Falklands War and the Cuba crisis, the world would look very different today without these incredible minds.
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 ...
Sep 6, 2018 · While computing pioneer Alan Turing was breaking Nazi communication in England, eleven thousand women, unbeknownst to their contemporaries and to most of us who constitute their posterity, were breaking enemy code in America — unsung heroines who helped defeat the Nazis and win WWII.
