Elizebeth Smith Friedman

(*26. August 1892 –31. October 1980)

"America's first female cryptanalyst"

How Codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman Broke Up a Nazi Spy Ring:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-pbs-film-tells-story-wwii-codebreaker-elizabeth-friedman-180976759/

https://time.com/5928583/elizebeth-friedman-codebreaker/

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Yeah, so there’s a new quantum resilient digital signature algorithm on the block. So far, it seems like NIST and friends don’t not like it. Negative affirmations out the ass. It’s equal to RSA for communication complexity, but not cost obviously. It’s also currently regulated under ITAR and patent pending. LFG!!!!!

Happy birthday to Alan Turing, OBE, FRS (1912 – 1954), British #mathematician, #cryptanalyst, computer scientist, prophet & hero. Turing foresaw not only that machines might quite likely develop the capacity to think (after all, our brains are only made of matter, and complex systems of neurons, which either fire or not, much like an electronic switch), …

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4. We also had a number of Jewish neighbours who had come to Nottingham because of links through the textile industry.

Most notable were the Noskwiths who set up the well-known hosiery firm Charnos. They were unable to access their own resources but started afresh in Britain with loans from business associates.

For many years they made undies and tights for M&S. Their son Rolf, spent the war as a #CryptAnalyst at Bletchley Park, before running the business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Noskwith