The Gambler and the Scholars Herbert Yardley, William & Elizebeth Friedman, and the Birth of Modern American Cryptology
Topics and features: * Examines the lives of three remarkable and pioneering cryptologists * Offers fascinating insights into spies, codes and ciphers, rumrunners, poker, and military history * Sheds new light on interesting parts of the cryptologists’ careers—especially Elizebeth Friedman, whose wo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | History of Computing
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Beginnings – Herbert Yardley
- 3. Beginnings – William Friedman and Elizebeth Smith
- 4. The Great War – Meetings
- 5. Wars End
- 6. What Might Have Been
- 7. The Cipher Bureau: Early Days
- 8. The Lone Cryptologists: Escape from Riverbank
- 9. The Cipher Bureau: Success and Decline
- 10. The Lone Cryptologists: Washington Life
- 11. Cryptologic Endings and Beginnings
- 12. The American Black Chamber
- 13. A Pretty Young Woman in a Pink Dress
- 14. One Career After Another
- 15. Red and Purple
- 16. Yardley Abroad
- 17. The Friedmans at War – William
- 18. The Friedmans at War – Elizebeth
- 19. Yardley’s War
- 20. Endings
- 21. Memories of Friedman and Yardley
- Appendix - A Few Words of Cryptology
- Bibliography
- Photo and Illustration Credits