Elizebeth Friedman, a pioneering cryptographer, played a crucial role in U.S. intelligence during World War II. She cracked ...

Code- and cipher-breaking have been in operation for centuries. However, cryptanalysis – the art of deciphering encoded messages – took on a new importance during WW2 as British boffins ...

During World War II, cryptography was the in-thing. In cryptography, information is encrypted in a way that any unintended recipient would find it useless. In a way, the code breakers could still ...