[46936] in Cypherpunks
Re: David Kahn on C-Span 2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Wed Jan 10 20:33:14 1996
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:21:48 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
The occasion was a "Cryptologic History Symposium," held on
October 26, 1995, at NSA.
No time was given for rebroadcast.
Kahn spoke briefly on material covered in his book on
codebreaking before and during WW2.
The second speaker was Professor Colin Burke, Univ. of
Maryland, like Kahn a scholar-in-residence at NSA, who reviewed
the pre-war and WW2 machines and proto-computers for
cryptanalysis.
Kahn, a charming speaker, said about Russian cryptanalysis
ability during WW2, that while there has been no published
material on the period, three talents make for excellent
cryptology: chess, music and mathematics, all of which the
Russians excell at.
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Other codebreaking news: the English are making a TV-movie on
Alan Turing, due to be broadcast around Easter. It is based on
the successful theater play a while back.
