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
Location
Hosts
Registration
- Date: 19 Sep 2017
- Time: 07:00 PM to 08:30 PM
- All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
-
Add Event to Calendar
- 1 Camino Santa Maria
- St. Mary's University
- San Antonio, Texas
- United States
- Building: University Center
- Room Number: Conference Room B
- Starts 30 August 2017 12:00 AM
- Ends 19 September 2017 12:00 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.
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
Michael Gershman
Cryptography and Bletchley Park
Biography: