Speakers
Dermot Turing
Sir
Dermot Turing worked for the Government Legal Service and then the international law firm
Clifford Chance, where he was a partner until 2014. His specialism was financial sector regulation,
particularly the problems associated with failed banks, and financial market infrastructure.
As well as writing and speaking, Dermot Turing is currently a trustee of Bletchley Park and of the Turing
Trust. He continues his interest in the financial world.
He published several monographs on the life of Alan Turing and the history of Bletchley Park. His latest book
X
Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken was published in September 2018.
Gábor Péter Nagy
Gábor
Nagy is professor of the Algebra Department
of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. His research field includes algebra, finite
geometry and discrete mathematics.
These areas of mathematics are strongly related to cryptography and the theory of
error correcting codes. This explains Gábor Nagy's personal interest in the Enigma story. He is also involved in
the
research project SETIT - Security Enhancing
Technologies for the IoT of NKFIH.
Date and venue
| Date |
2018-10-29 Thursday, 15h – 17h |
| Venue |
Assembly Hall of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences
1051 Budapest, Széchenyi István
tér 9. |
Organization and support
| Organizers |
BME Institute of Mathematics
Wacław Felczak Foundation |
| Supporters |
Embassy of Poland in
Budapest
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Section of Mathematics |
| Responsibles |
Dr. Karol Biernacki
Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland in Szeged
Dr. Gábor Péter
Nagy
head of the Department
of Algebra
BME Institute of Mathematics
|
In the first lecture we survey the history of
cryptography and its modern concepts. We give a detailed
account on the principles of Enigma systems.
In the talk, we
present a working original
Enigma
machine which we borrow for this occasion from the
Warsaw Museum of Technology and Industry.
