Led by the brilliant Alan Turing, inventor of the computer, the codebreakers of England's cipher-cracking organization, Bletchley Park, were mathematicians, crossword-puzzle fanatics, and other ...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “The Codebreaker” tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S.

Elizebeth Friedman was a star cryptanalyst who cracked hundreds of ciphers for the U.S. government. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Armed with a sharp mind and nerves of steel, Elizebeth Smith ...

UC Santa Cruz undergraduate computer engineering student Astra Tsai. (photo by Juliette Vazquez) For the second year in a row, UC Santa Cruz undergraduate computer engineering student Astra Tsai was ...

In October 1957, American cryptologist and codebreaker Elizebeth S. Friedman and her husband, William F. Friedman, were the subjects of a short article in TIME magazine about their new book debunking ...

Cheat fans, your wait is over. Pelican has finally pushed to market a meaty Codebreaker. Previous versions not withstanding, the Codebreaker has enjoyed great support from it code-generating staff ...