Review of the 2nd International Conference on Historical Cryptology in Mons, Belgium

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Acknowledgments

The reviewer would like to thank Beáta Megyesi and Klaus Schmeh for helping to refresh his memory when the time came to write this review!

About the Reviewer

Jerry McCarthy's day job used to be to write software, in areas such as retail systems, cryptography and internationalization, for a global computing company. Since his retirement, he now volunteers at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC), which is situated within the Bletchley Park Campus. There, he talks to visitors about, inter alia, Tunny, Colossus, and the Museum's slide rule collection. He also volunteers at the Instytut Józefa Piłsudskiego in Hammersmith, London, where he gives the occasional talk on cryptological matters, such as Enigma and early Polish systems for breaking it. He is not rich enough to be a full-time cryptocollector, but is interested in crypto simulation techniques which allow virtual acquisition of crypto hardware without needing to find the space to store it. His house is definitely not big enough for a Colossus! He is now studying Hungarian.

Notes

1 Note that full details of each talk in the Research Track are given in the Proceedings (Antal, Schmeh (Eds.), 2019). Presentations in the Exposition Track are merely listed in the Proceedings. See further down this review for details of each track.

2 See Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCS35 for further details.