Talk on the History of Cryptology

[Ross Anderson]

This is slightly off topic, strictly speaking, but I thought list
members might nonetheless be interested.

As `le tout monde' will be there, it could provide chances to conspire
against the security of the state :-)

Ross



               THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS
                     http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/


                               C O N F E R E N C E

                  H i s t o r y   o f   C r y p t o g r a p h y.

                       Cambridge, Mill Lane lecture rooms

                              Saturday 24 June 2000


                               P R O G R A M M E


0930  Registration and coffee/tea

1025  Dr Ross Anderson                    Welcome
     (University of Cambridge)

1030  Dr Karl de Leeuw                   J. F. Euler (1741-1800) on
     (University of Utrecht)             cryptology and the anatomy of
                                         writing

1130  Dr Gabriel Landini                 Secrets of mediaeval science?:
    (University of Birmingham)           The Voynich Manuscript


1230  LUNCH


1400  Stephen Budiansky                  Codebreaking with IBM machines
       (Leesburg, VA)                    in World War II

1500  Dr R. A. Ratcliff                  How the Germans proved
       (Oakland, CA)                     Enigma secure

1600  Tea/coffee

1645   Professor Donald Michie           Colossus and the breaking of
      (University of Edinburgh)          the wartime Fish codes

1745  End


      The British Society for the History of Mathematics is grateful to
     the London Mathematical Society  for its support of this conference

                        SPONSORED BY nCipher

Booking form: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/cryptbooking.html.
Please register by tomorrow (Saturday) if you want lunch. Otherwise do
please still register in advance if you can, so we know how many
coffees to order.

Maps and travelling directions are at 
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/site-maps/site-maps.html>.


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