[crypto] [serge.fehr at cwi.nl: [risc-list] RISC at CWI (Mon Jan 22): Sandy Zabell (Northwestern University) - "Cryptography in WWII"]

[R. Hirschfeld]

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From: Serge Fehr <serge.fehr at cwi.nl>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:35:53 +0100
Subject: [risc-list] RISC at CWI (Mon Jan 22): Sandy Zabell (Northwestern
 University) - "Cryptography in WWII"

Dear Colleagues,
this is to remind you of the upcoming RISC Seminar, jointly organizedwith the CWI Machine Learning group, featuring a talk by
   * Sandy Zabell (Northwestern University) *
on
   * The paradox of German high-level cryptography in WWII. *
The seminar takes place in the Euler room (Z009) at the AmsterdamScience Park Congress Center, next to CWI, on
         * Monday January 22, 2018, from 11:00 to 12:00. *
See below for the abstract, and visit the RISC web pagehttps://projects.cwi.nl/crypto/risc.php for more information. Best regards,Ronald Cramer, Serge Fehr and Peter Grünwald

- --------------------ABSTRACT:  The title of this talk is the title of Chapter 1 of thesecond volume of the now declassified 1946 US Army Security Agency book"European Axis Signal Intelligence", which starts off: German high-levelcryptographic systems were insecure although brilliantly conceived. Inthis talk I discuss the reasons for this paradox based on the materialin various TICOM documents. (TICOM was the "Target IntelligenceCommittee", a joint UK-US group at the end of WWII tasked with acquiringGerman signals intelligence assets - personnel, equipment, andintercepts.) Surprisingly, it turns out that the reasons for thismeltdown in operational security on the German side are quite simple tounderstand, involving both deficiencies in organization and resistanceto facing inconvenient truths. Even more surprisingly, many of theresearch cryptologists in both the Wehrmacht and Army were well aware ofthese problems, but their concerns were (fortunately) ignored.This is joint w!
 ork with Frode Weierud (Crypto Cellar Research)--------------------_______________________________________________risc-list mailing listrisc-list at cwi.nlhttps://lists.cwi.nl/mailman/listinfo/risc-list
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