Secret Messages
Abstract When Winston Churchill said, “Never in the course of human events have so many owed so much to so few,” he was referring to the airmen who died in the Battle of Britain. However, he could very well have added his own name to the list. Another name that might be added is that of mathematicia...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780195117219.003.0019 2023-12-31T10:20:36+01:00 Secret Messages Benson, Donald C 1999 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195117219.003.0019 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52346591/isbn-9780195117219-book-part-19.pdf unknown Oxford University PressNew York, NY The Moment of Proof page 259-274 ISBN 9780195117219 9780197727256 book-chapter 1999 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195117219.003.0019 2023-12-06T09:07:35Z Abstract When Winston Churchill said, “Never in the course of human events have so many owed so much to so few,” he was referring to the airmen who died in the Battle of Britain. However, he could very well have added his own name to the list. Another name that might be added is that of mathematician Alan Turing (1912-54)—forthe course of World War II might have been quite different if Turing had not broken the Enigma cipher, which Nazi Germany used to communicate with U-boats in the North Atlantic. Today cryptography is at the center of a debate over national security and individual liberty. Book Part North Atlantic Oxford University Press (via Crossref) 259 274 |
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Abstract When Winston Churchill said, “Never in the course of human events have so many owed so much to so few,” he was referring to the airmen who died in the Battle of Britain. However, he could very well have added his own name to the list. Another name that might be added is that of mathematician Alan Turing (1912-54)—forthe course of World War II might have been quite different if Turing had not broken the Enigma cipher, which Nazi Germany used to communicate with U-boats in the North Atlantic. Today cryptography is at the center of a debate over national security and individual liberty. |
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