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This failure has only deepened the obsession of thousands of would-be cryptanalysts.
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Steven Levy, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2025
Knightley was nominated again in 2015 for her supporting performance in The Imitation Game as real-life cryptanalyst and numismatist Joan Clarke.
—Diana Pearl, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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The painting up for sale at Sotheby’s depicts Alan Turing, the English mathematician and Second World War cryptanalyst who is remembered as a pioneer in AI and computer science.
—Carlie Porterfield, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
And, in general, the race between designers who try to build strong codes and cryptanalysts who try to break them ultimately benefits security.
—Nadia Heninger, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2013
Ocean Exploration Trust, NOAA Japan had hoped to defeat the U.S. Pacific Fleet, but the U.S. had advance notice of the Midway attack because Navy cryptanalysts had begun breaking Japanese communication codes in early 1942, according to the museum.
—Stephen Smith, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2023
Playing famous British cryptanalyst Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch takes on one of his greatest roles yet, a mercurial and arrogant mathematician who helped the Allies decrypt Soviet Union messages during World War II.
—Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
Red has a copy of the poem because Kendall foolishly paid a cryptanalyst to look it over.
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
Mundy, a former Washington Post reporter and New York Times best-selling author, mentioned Nye's cryptanalyst mother Jacqueline Jenkins-Nye in her book Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II.
—Lanford Beard, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2022
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Steven Levy, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2025
Knightley was nominated again in 2015 for her supporting performance in The Imitation Game as real-life cryptanalyst and numismatist Joan Clarke.
—Diana Pearl, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Related article The rise of the AI beauty pageant and its complicated quest for the ‘perfect’ woman
The painting up for sale at Sotheby’s depicts Alan Turing, the English mathematician and Second World War cryptanalyst who is remembered as a pioneer in AI and computer science.
—Carlie Porterfield, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
And, in general, the race between designers who try to build strong codes and cryptanalysts who try to break them ultimately benefits security.
—Nadia Heninger, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2013
Ocean Exploration Trust, NOAA Japan had hoped to defeat the U.S. Pacific Fleet, but the U.S. had advance notice of the Midway attack because Navy cryptanalysts had begun breaking Japanese communication codes in early 1942, according to the museum.
—Stephen Smith, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2023
Playing famous British cryptanalyst Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch takes on one of his greatest roles yet, a mercurial and arrogant mathematician who helped the Allies decrypt Soviet Union messages during World War II.
—Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
Red has a copy of the poem because Kendall foolishly paid a cryptanalyst to look it over.
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
Mundy, a former Washington Post reporter and New York Times best-selling author, mentioned Nye's cryptanalyst mother Jacqueline Jenkins-Nye in her book Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II.
—Lanford Beard, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2022
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“Cryptanalyst.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cryptanalyst. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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