lol Jericho hit the codebreaker and the arena went cold 🤼♂️
Wij speelden Mastermind (Codebreaker). Pfff vroeger ging me dat beter af! 🤔 Wat is jullie favoriete spel?
what we now mean by computation itself (with his concept of Turing Machines) in 1936. During WWII he worked as a codebreaker & with others invented the device which was finally able to crack notorious German cryptographic Enigma machine (in its more complex later incarnation)! His work undoubtedly 🧵
Friedman's wife (also a codebreaker) later hurled her own great mind against the locked door that is the Voynich Manuscript. She enlisted her fellow NSA wives in the effort.
I am reminded of the slightly chilling passage in Cryptonomicon about the codebreaker (a fictionalized analogue of William Friedman) who drove himself to nervous breakdown engaging in what that moment's narrator describes as a "noncomputable process" to break a machine cipher.
Declassified memo from US codebreaker sheds light on Ethel Rosenberg’s Cold War spy case - https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/09/10/declassified-memo-from-us-codebreaker-sheds-light-on-ethel-rosenbergs-cold-war-spy-case/
A top U.S. government codebreaker who decrypted secret Soviet communications during the Cold War concluded that Ethel Rosenberg knew about her husband’s activities but “did not engage in the work h…