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February 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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This is what was originally on the right side. Does anyone have the left?
TRAILBLAZERS in U.S. Cryptologic History Elizebeth Smith Friedman How do you write a "short bio" for someone like Elizebeth Friedman? She was a pioneering cryptanalyst, writer, mother, wife, teacher, mentor, and Shakespeare enthusiast. She introduced her husband, Willlam Friedman, to the field of cryptology. She worked for the US Navy, the Coast Guard, the Treasury Department, and the international Monetary Fund And in the 1920s she took on organized crime and won Nothing we write here will do her justice-but she's Elizebeth Friedman, so we had to try Agnes Meyer Driscoll In her thirty-year career as a cryptanalyst for the US Navy. the Armed Forces Security Agency, and NSA, Driscoll worked on some of the most consequential encryption systems in history: Enigma, the Japanese Red Book Code, Blue Book Code the ORANGE machine, and the Japanese Navy's 2N-25 (her work would later be completed by her colleagues at OP-20-G in time to help win the Battle of Midway). At the same time, she was an early champion of the use of cryptanalytic machine technology Juanita Moody In the 1950s. Moody, who started her career as a cryptanalyst during WWIl, was given positions of increasing responsibility at NSA chief of the offices targeting European satellites Russian manual systems, Russian and East European high-grade manual systems By October 1962 Moody was in charge of the NSA office that included Cuba, and her leadership and tenacity brought key signals intelligence on the Cuban Missile Crisis to President Kennedy and military leadership Ann Caracristi Ann Caracristi didn't like to be singled out as the first woman" this, or the "first female" that but she was one of the first women in the history of the Department of Defense to reach the apex of the civilian ranks, the super-grade. She would later become the first woman to hold the post of NSAS Deputy Director (the highest civilian position at the Agency).
February 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM