How Women Won WWII: AABBA and the Art of Codebreaking
About this episode
This episode explores the contributions of Elizebeth Smith Friedman to codebreaking during WWII and her historical significance.
Shakespeare and Al Capone. What could possibly be a link between these two men who were born centuries apart? A master codebreaker named Elizebeth Smith Friedman. If her name doesn’t sound familiar, there’s a reason for that. Even though she is one of the pioneers of cryptanalysis, very few people knew about her war-changing contributions until after her files were declassified in 2008.
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