The attack on Pearl Harbor 70 years ago set in motion a series of battles in the Pacific between the Japanese and the United States. The turning point in the Pacific came in June 1942, when the U.S.

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 ...

You, too, can be a state-of-the-art sign-stealer. You can play along at home and download The Athletic’s homemade version of the sign-cracking algorithm, while we ...

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 ...

The Houston Astros' sign-stealing scheme had its origins in an application created by the team's front office, according to a report published Friday night by the Wall Street Journal. Dubbed ...

Friedman first became something of a celebrity during the Prohibition era, when the Coast Guard—faced with a ceaseless flood of liquor coming into the country by ship—persuaded her to turn her ...

As you know, Star Wars is one of the biggest franchises of all time and arguably the biggest sci-fi franchise of all times. This explains why there are so many derivative works and why the Star Wars ...

The death of MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams – whose naked body was found inside an externally locked bag in his bathtub in 2010 – was a “perfect crime,” a confined spaces expert says. Peter Faulding ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Star Wars: The Last Jedi saw the appearance of multiple new characters like Rose Tico and DJ, as ...