Abraham Sinkov
Abraham Sinkov · Technology & Engineering
Pioneering U.S. Army cryptanalyst.
1907, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States — 1998, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
United States
Abraham Sinkov is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Pioneering U.S. Army cryptanalyst.
Sinkov was a pioneering U.S. Army cryptanalyst, one of the first hires of William Friedman's Signal Intelligence Service, who helped break Japanese and other ciphers during World War II and later served as a senior NSA figure. He authored a widely used introduction to cryptanalysis. He was born into a Jewish immigrant family and raised in Brooklyn.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Pioneering U.S. Army cryptanalyst.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
