IEEE Life Members Aug. meeting: BLETCHLEY PARK AND CRYPTOGRAPHY
Daily work of Bletchley Park: the use and impact of the results for WW2, the theory and techniques of Enigma and Lorenz cryptanalysis, and lessons applicable to today's cybersecurity.
Outline:
Poland and the road to war
The Enigma machine - not a fixed target
Traffic analysis - you don't need the keys to know your enemy
Manual methods of cryptanalysis
The Bombe and Colossus
Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman
Top Secret?
Date and Time
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- Date: 16 Aug 2018
- Time: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
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- 8633 Crownhill Blvd.
- San Antonio, Texas
- United States 78216
- Building: La Fonda
- Starts 26 July 2018 08:35 AM
- Ends 16 August 2018 09:00 AM
- All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Michael Gershman
Cryptography and Bletchley Park
Daily work of Bletchley Park: the use and impact of the results for WW2, the theory and techniques of Enigma and Lorenz cryptanalysis, and lessons applicable to today's cybersecurity.
Outline:
Poland and the road to war
The Enigma machine - not a fixed target
Traffic analysis - you don't need the keys to know your enemy
Manual methods of cryptanalysis
The Bombe and Colossus
Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman
Top Secret?
Biography:
Instructor at St. Philips College (10 years):
Business computing
Systems Mangager at Citibank (30 years):
IBM mainframe, client/server systems, global T1/T3 network
Computer programmer at Link Aviation (7 years):
Lunar Module Mission simulator, etc.
BS in Physics from City College New York, MS in Computer Science from New York University