{"id":22307,"date":"2025-12-23T13:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=22307"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:14:01","slug":"madame-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2025\/12\/madame-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame X"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My wife’s great-great<\/em>-aunt is the late Agnes Meyer Driscoll<\/a>, a renowned cryptanalyst who played a central role in deciphering Japanese and German Navy codes in the 1920s and 30s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Known as Madame X<\/strong>, she co-developed the “Communications Machine”, which became a standard enciphering device for the Navy for most of the 1920s, and was later considered the “first lady of naval cryptology”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were gifted some of her restricted-access Navy crypto assignments from the 1930s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My wife’s great-great-aunt is the late Agnes Meyer Driscoll, a renowned cryptanalyst who played a central role in deciphering Japanese and German Navy codes in the 1920s and 30s. Known as Madame X, she co-developed the “Communications Machine”, which became a standard enciphering device for the Navy for most of the 1920s, and was later […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[271,150],"class_list":["post-22307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crypto","tag-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-5NN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22316,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22307\/revisions\/22316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}