Elizebeth Smith Friedman: The Codebreaker. The details of her remarkable career sound a bit outlandish: broke Enigma codes, developed many of the principles of modern cryptology, testified against Al Capone, J. Edgar Hoover took credit for her work... https://kottke.org/26/02/elizebeth-smith-friedman-the-codebreaker
Elizebeth Smith Friedman: The Codebreaker

The details of Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s remarkable career sound a bit outlandish when you list them all together: cracked thousands of codes and ciphers duri

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