Hacking Enigma: The Real Story of the "Imitation Game" and Alan Turing

Presented at HOPE 2020 Virtual Rescheduled, July 27, 2020, 7 p.m. (60 minutes)

The German military used Enigma cipher machines to encode all of their important communications. The breaking of these Enigma codes is credited with shortening the war by two years, saving thousands of lives, and perhaps keeping Hitler from developing the atomic bomb. This talk will explain in detail how the Enigma works and trace the fascinating history of the cracking of the Enigma codes. The real story behind *The Imitation Game* movie will be told.

Presenters:

• Tom Perera
  **Tom Perera** is a retired professor of neuroscience who specialized in research on the coding of information in the human brain and nervous system. He has been hunting, collecting, researching, restoring, and writing about Enigmas and their history for over 35 years. He located, restored, and sold the Enigmas that star in *The Imitation Game* and *Snowden.* He provides extensive Enigma information through his Enigma book, his lectures, and his website: www.EnigmaMuseum.com.<br>

Links:

• https://xiii.hope.net/hope2020/talk/X7RHRR/
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/HOPE 2020 (2020)/HOPE 2020 - Hacking Enigma The Real Story.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gFX4on_2V4

Similar Presentations:

• The Next HOPE (2010) / American Bombe: How the U.S. Shattered the Enigma Code
• ShmooCon X (2014) / "How I Met Your Mother" or The Brief and Secret History of Bletchley Park and How They Invented Cryptography and the Computer Age
• HOPE Number Six (2006) / The Life and Times of Alan Turing, Father of the Computer