Did you know that World War II’s best codebreaker was a woman?

During World War II Elizebeth Smith Friedman helped invent powerful new methods of breaking codes. Her work heavily influenced the F.B.I and later on the C.I.A. With the launch of her codebreaking unit, Friedman and her colleagues intercepted tens of thousands of encrypted radio messages every year. Jason Fagone, author of “The Woman Who Smashed Codes”, an amazing life story about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, states, whenever someone in the government didn’t know what they would be doing they would say “Send for Mrs. Friedman” and she’d fix everything.

https://www.wired.com/story/world-war-2-codebreakers-elizebeth-smith-friedman/