(via Preserving the History of Women in Cryptology - by SJStone)
Yesterday, I saw a post from General Michael Hayden, former Director of the National Security Agency, who noted that the National Cryptologic Museum had covered up photos of Women in American Cryptology, so I decided to take a stab at making sure that information was still available by capturing screenshots of the website.
Of course, this information is undoubtedly found in lots of other sources of information, including Wikipedia, I’m sure. But given the nature of Trump’s pathetic effort to literally erase entire government websites dedicated to science, technology, climate change, and other enduring sources of information important to the US public, I thought I would try and make sure this content was captured and preserved.
It’s likely I did this all for nothing, but in the current chaos, we cannot take anything for granted. So, for the next several days, I’ll be sharing all the screenshots here to celebrate the accomplishments of the 18 women who contributed to American cryptology in defending liberty and the United States of America.
Currently (as of today), this information can still be found in-whole at the National Cryptologic Museum’s website: https://www.nsa.gov/History/Cryptologic-History/Historical-Figures/#women.
Let’s start with the person who is undoubtedly the most important person on this list, for whom an entire building at NSA is named, and for whom auditorium is named: Elizebath S. Friedman.