Jacob A. Gross

Jacob A. Gross (1842 – October 8, 1887) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

Born in New York City, he was the son of Martin Gross. He attended private schools in New York City. Then he studied law at Columbia Law School, graduating LL.B. in 1864, and LL.M. in 1865, and practiced law in New York City.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (6th D.) in 1874 and 1875.

Gross never married. A moderate smoker, he died of cancer of the throat at the age of 45, following an unsuccessful operation.[1]

Sources
  1. "Obituary", The New York Sun (October 10, 1887), p. 3.
gollark: That actually probably *would* put it in the range of practical bruteforceability, since there are only 4 billion possible 4-byte values and anything you're doing by hand can't be *that* slow to run on a computer.
gollark: That's, er, 4 bytes.
gollark: Also also, things involving just scrambling the alphabet and using that fixed "scrambling" for each letter of the input are vulnerable to stuff like frequency analysis.
gollark: Also, the fact that it mixes up the alphabet a lot isn't exactly very relevant, since the vulnerable bit is probably how it, well, generates the "scrambling" in the first place.
gollark: * not practical to decrypt unless you have some extra information i.e. the key
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