William F. Friedman

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William F. Friedman

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William F. Friedman's Degrees

Bachelors Genetics Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, William Frederick Friedman was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s. In 1940, subordinates of his led by Frank Rowlett broke Japan's PURPLE cipher, thus disclosing Japanese diplomatic secrets before America's entrance into World War II.

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William F. Friedman's Published Works

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The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined: An analysis of cryptographic systems used as evidence that some author other than William Shakespeare wrote the plays commonly attributed to him (1957) (14)
The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined (1958) (11)
Notes on Code Words (1932) (8)
Advanced Military Cryptography (1976) (4)
Edgar Allan Poe, Cryptographer (1936) (3)
Report on the history of the use of codes and code language, the international telegraph regulations pertaining thereto, and the bearing of this history on the Cortina report (1)
Cryptography and cryptanalysis articles (1976) (1)
The Meditations of Shakespeare. (1968) (0)

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