Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman Was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Codes, Saved 8,000 Lives and Pioneered Modern Codebreaking

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars.

'Not demons': UK vicar claims ancient prophet Ezekiel witnessed advanced alien technology in secret Bible code

A Church of England vicar in North Wales has claimed that biblical prophet Ezekiel may have witnessed advanced alien ...
Morning Overview on MSN

AI helped decode a hymn describing ancient Babylon, lost for more than 1,000 years

A hymn praising the city of Babylon and its people, silent for more than a thousand years, has been reconstructed from broken ...

Before the NSA Honored Historian David Kahn, the FBI Investigated Him

Newly declassified files reveal that J. Edgar Hoover wanted to prosecute the NSA’s future scholar in residence for collecting ...
IEEE

Belief Propagation Decoding of Primitive Rateless Codes

Abstract: In this letter, we propose a novel decoding scheme for primitive rateless (PR) codes to improve belief propagation (BP) performance in the short blocklength regime. We first design the PR ...