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EPISODE · Aug 17, 2026 · 33 MIN

How Women Won WWII: AABBA and the Art of Codebreaking

from The Preamble · host Sharon McMahon

Shakespeare and Al Capone. What could possibly be a link between these two men who were born centuries apart? A master codebreaker named Elizebeth Smith Friedman. If her name doesn’t sound familiar, there’s a reason for that. Even though she is one of the pioneers of cryptanalysis, very few people knew about her war-changing contributions until after her files were declassified in 2008.

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