cryptologist
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cryptologists
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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
Gonzales, a former Navy cryptologist who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, won a close race in 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 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
Her final few years as a military cryptologist had been draining.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
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
NSA cryptologists were equally concerned about the potential impact of integrated circuits, which seemed poised to enable a new era of unbreakable encryption.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2020
Where is the argument that the Executive use its resources to recruit cryptologists to write the code that it currently seeks and codes it will certainly need for future technology.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2016
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