One of the world’s leading experts on cipher devices will present on talk "Inside Enigma: The Story of the Enigma and Other Historic Cipher Machines" on Tuesday, April 19 at 3:15 PM in room 208 of Warner Hall on the Middlebury College campus.
Tom Perera, a retired neuroscience professor, has been hunting for, collecting, researching and restoring Enigmas for over 25 years. He located and restored the Enigma machine that stars in the recent Academy Award winning film The Imitation Game.
The German Enigma cipher machine represented a dramatic improvement over all previous forms of encryption. It produced a continually changing substitution cipher output and formed the basis for all machine-encryption devices that followed. Professor Perera will trace the evolution of the Enigma, explore its history and how it works, and examine the cipher machines that were developed after its introduction. He will also describe some recent archaeological digs that have revealed clues to additional aspects of Enigma history.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Michael Olinick (443-5559, molinick@middlebury.edu)
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