Cracking the Cipher Challenge • Simon Singh • GOTO 2016
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Length: 40min 35sec (2435 seconds)
Published: Mon Jul 11 2016
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Check out this 41 minute talk from GOTO Amsterdam 2016 by Simon Singh - Science Writer based in London. The full talk abstract can be found below:
In "The Code Book", a history of cryptography, the author Simon Singh included ten encrypted messages with a prize of £10,000 for the first person or team to decipher all of them. Thousands of amateur and professional codebreakers took up the Cipher Challenge, but it took over a year before the messages were cracked.
Simon Singh will be talking about how he constructed the Cipher Challenge and how the winners eventually cracked it. He will also be using the Cipher Challenge to give an introduction to the history of cryptography and to demonstrate why encryption is more important today than ever before. The talk will include a demonstration of a genuine Second World War Enigma machine.