Talk:Agnes Meyer Driscoll

Identity of "private company"?

The article mentions that she took two years off to work for a private company. Was that Herbern? Maury 13:17, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I think that's clear now: it was a private company trying to create an unbreakable cipher. As the now cited documents describe, she broke a published selection of ciphertext which really messed Herbern up; she then went on to advise the company. The proposed machine, of which I do not know the details, never could meet the design specifications of the military - Navy I think. Jbeyerl (talk) 14:55, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

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Venona, not a cipher.

The article currently states "... she may have contributed to attacking a cipher called Venona.[8]" The link [8] gives me a 404 error.

There is a Wikipedia article entitled "Venona project" not "Venona Cipher". This article currently begins "The Venona project was a United States counterintelligence program"

AMD did not attack a cipher called Venona, there was no such cipher. AMD may have attacked Soviet cryptograms, if so the program was, at the time, not called Venona but Bride, Acorn, Copse or one of the other code names which preceded Venona.

Without access to link [8] I am unwilling to edit the AMD article. AnnaComnemna (talk) 13:22, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

New source

I added this source:

• Johnson, Kevin Wade (2015). The Neglected Giant: Agnes Meyer Driscoll. Center for Cryptologic History Special Series, Volume 10. Washington, DC: National Security Agency: Center for Cryptologic History. Retrieved 2023-08-08.

It definitely should be used to update and have better citations in the text of the article. TuckerResearch (talk) 14:01, 8 August 2023 (UTC)