Colloquium to Feature Original WWII German Enigma Machine
Mike Koss, a professional software engineer and amateur collector of cryptographic machines, will give a colloquium talk at 3:30 pm May 2 on the history of the German Enigma Machine and the vulnerabilities that enabled its code to be broken by the British at Bletchley Park. He will demonstrate its use on an original Enigma machine as well as allow hands-on use. Mike has also created a Paper Enigma simulator (http://mckoss.com/Crypto/Enigma.htm) and a dynamic Enigma simulator for Android smart phones and tablets (Pocket Enigma in the Google Play store). For more information on this talk as well as additional special colloquia celebrating the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth, please visit www.cs.uoregon.edu/Activities/Public_Talks.