cryptologist
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Carol Sutton Lewis: But when the government first tapped her to help the war effort, Elizebeth wasn’t a trained cryptologist, not remotely.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023
Army veteran, a cryptologist whose job was to crack enemy codes while stationed in Northern Africa and Europe during World War II.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
He also blames a bipartisan national security bureaucracy for the death of his wife, Shannon Kent, a Navy cryptologist killed in a suicide bombing in 2019 while fighting terrorists in Syria.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
NSA officials also proposed recruiting a top cryptologist to install inside the company.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2020
Another was Oliver Strachey, a British cryptologist who ran a code-breaking unit in Canada that tracked spies, just as Elizebeth’s team did.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Carol Sutton Lewis: To crack these codes, the US government turned not to expert cryptologists, not to military intelligence, but to a team of rookie codebreakers living in the Illinois countryside—
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023
Art director Antonio Alcalá, whose previous stamp projects featured skateboard art, women cryptologists of World War II and hip-hop, felt Meléndez’s style reflected a “spirit of Mexican culture” that suited the assignment.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
The code, based on the then-unwritten Navajo language, confounded Japanese military cryptologists and is credited with helping end the war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
Since then, American spies, engineers, cryptologists and linguists have flocked to Alice Springs, the small town closest to the base, to work at the facility.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2017
A working group of cryptologists is searching for a way to harden the technology while adding new features, such as the ability to hide what Web site users are visiting.
From Washington Post