September 17, 2009 • 3:44 pm 0
He deserved much better
National Post
14 Sep 2009
In the very distant future, the name of Alan Turing (1912-1954) will be among the very few for which the 20th century is remembered, long after most of the politicians, artists and celebrities have receded into confusion and oblivion. His stature is…read more…
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March 26, 2009 • 5:49 pm 0
ENIGMA crackers reunite at Bletchley Park
I had the honour to meet one of them, now an emeritus math professor.
Check this article for pictures of the Turing Bombe the electronic-mechanical code-breaking machine used by the British to crack 3,000 Enigma messages a day during the Second World War.
Cryptool ver 1.4 has a very well done simulator of the ENIGMA machine encryption.
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Filed under: Cryptography, ENIGMA, Encryption, Information Theory, Math & Computers, in the News , codebreakers, Cryptography, Cryptool, Encryption, ENIGMA, in the News, Information Theory
Data Security and Information Theory are essential to modern life. Far from being the exclusive domain of academics and geeks, the fundamentals and its application are easy to understand for most people. Here, my modest attempt to bring some of the issues to the public discourse and spread the knowledge to make the internet a safer place for your virtual self.
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