|
|
|
|
|
|
8-12 February 2010
Between 8 and 12 February 2010, the Eindhoven University of Technology,
TU/e, organised a special week on Digital Security, called
SuperTU/esday.
Several lectures and workshops on the subject of security and communication
networks, were available throughout the week. Due to the enormous interest
from the public, these were all pre-booked well in advance of the event.
|
Apart from lectures and workshops, there was a unique exhibition of historical
cipher machines, brought together for this event by
Scryption,
the AIVD
and the Crypto Museum.
Part of the exhibition was dedicated to the famous German
Enigma machine,
showing machines, accessories and even a code book.
Other parts of the exhibition showed a wide variety of
Hagelin machines,
Transvertex,
Discret,
Cipher Wheels
and the Russian Fialka,
which is still in use in some parts of the world.
|
|
|
As the event was held in the city of Eindhoven, we were also showing some
historical cipher machines developed by
Philips Usfa,
such as the Ecolex-4,
the James Bond-style Miniflex
and the recently declassified
Spendex-40 crypto phone.
After initial announcements in the local newspaper,
the event attracted national attention and was covered by a series of
regional and national TV-programmes. In total, approx. 850 people visited
the exhibition during this week.
Special hands-on sessions were available for schools, allowing children
to type away on old-fashioned typewriters or try their luck on the
Alberti Cipher Disc.
|
All photographs courtesy Scryption
|
|
|
|
Any links shown in red are currently unavailable.
If you like this website, why not make a donation?
© Copyright 2009-2013, Paul Reuvers & Marc Simons. Last changed: Sunday, 01 July 2012 - 07:46 CET
|
 |
|
|
