Every once in a while (maybe every
year, for all I know), the NSA (1) has been sponsoring a symposium on
the history of Cryptology. This symposium is mostly for scholars
but I am going to presume that people who are interested in this will
make the effort to find out whether or not they can attend.
Special Note:
But for all you silly people who got your panties in a bunch because of Snowden, you are suggested to attend. What a wonderful opportunity to learn something about the field and the people in reality instead of the very weird beliefs that so many of my peers seem to have.
Special Note:
But for all you silly people who got your panties in a bunch because of Snowden, you are suggested to attend. What a wonderful opportunity to learn something about the field and the people in reality instead of the very weird beliefs that so many of my peers seem to have.
The program is on the www.cryptome.org site at
the following URL, but I have at great personal expense converted the
PDF to jpeg for your convenience.
This promises to be a very exciting
conference. Here are some talks and speakers that I noticed off the
top of my head:
1. David Kahn (2) chairing a panel on
new work on Alan Turing and his work on cryptology.
2. Work in progress by Whitfield Diffie
on the ECM Mark I
3. Crytology in ancient Greece and
China
4. Preparation for WW 2 and WW 2
Cryptology Operations including the attack on Japanese naval cypher
JN25.
5. East European COMINT in WW 2
I am not sure I can attend but I might
be able to show up for a half a day. I wish I could attend the
whole thing, it looks great.
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1. Nichren Shoshu of America
www.nst.org
2. David Kahn is a well known author on
cryptology, considered to have written some of the best books on
cryptology and the people who do it in the open literature.
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