Current Topics Seminar

Speaker Roberto Rubalcaba
Title History of Cryptography.
Date April 26, 4:00pm PDL C-36
From Demaratus and Histiaeus to Ceasar, from Mary Queen of Scots to Hitler, cryptography has played an important role in world history. Substituation, transposition and polyalphabetic ciphers, and the famous Enigma machine will be discussed. We will finish with cryptography that is in use today.