Life in Code
Protesters called it an act of war when the U.S. Coast Guard sank a Canadian-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Mexico in 1929. It took a cool-headed codebreaker solving a "trunk-full" of smugglers'' encrypted messages to get Uncle Sam out of the mess: Elizebeth Smith Friedman''s groundbreaking work helped prove the boat was owned by American gangsters.
This book traces the career of a legendary U...
Protesters called it an act of war when the U.S. Coast Guard sank a Canadian-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Mexico in 1929. It took a cool-headed codebreaker solving a "trunk-full" of smugglers'' encrypted messages to get Uncle Sam out of the mess: Elizebeth Smith Friedman''s groundbreaking work helped prove the boat was owned by American gangsters.
This book traces the career of a legendary U...
