The secret black women codebreakers who cracked Soviet nuclear secrets during the Cold War

Toiling away in a cramped and sweltering basement, an all-black team of women helped the US win the Cold War by secretly ...
Phys.org

Codebreakers find, decipher lost letters of Mary, Queen of Scots

An international team of codebreakers said Wednesday they have found and deciphered the long lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots, one of the most argued-over figures in ...
OPB

3 amateur codebreakers set out to decrypt old letters. They uncovered royal history

Hulton Archive / Getty Images We can now learn more about one of the most controversial monarchs in European history, thanks to a trio of amateur cryptologists who unknowingly stumbled upon a treasure ...
The New York Times

David Kahn, Leading Historian of Codes and Code Breaking, Dies at 93

His 1967 book, “The Codebreakers,” introduced the world to cryptology and inspired the emergence of private-sector encrypted communication. By Clay Risen David Kahn, whose 1967 book, “The Codebreakers ...