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GOVCERT.NL is the Cyber Security and Response Team of the Dutch government [1].
They aid government agencies and departments by preventing and treating
ICT security incidents, such as the 2011 Diginotar security breach [2].
Each year, GOVCERT shares their knowledge with others, by
organizing an international symposium with a variety of speakers and subjects.
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This year's symposium was held on 15 and 16 November at the World Trade
Center in Rotterdam (Netherlands). It was themed Decade of Challenges
and had over 600 attendees and nearly 30 speakers from a range of countries
[3].
Museum Scryption and Crypto Museum
were invited to host a large exhibition
of historical cipher machines in the main hall of the WTC.
At one side of the hall was the entrance of the main theatre and the
conference rooms. The hall itself was used for coffee breaks, refreshments,
lunch and networking people.
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Around the circumfere of the main hall, we installed a series of large glass
showcases in which over 50 historical cipher machines, spy radios
and documents were displayed. Check out the photographs below.
Part of the exhibition was, of course,
dedicated to the famous Enigma machine.
Alongside the well-known Enigma-I
used by the German Wehrmacht during WWII, we were showing a recently discovered
pre-war Commercial Enigma machine from 1927.
Other sections of the exhibition were showing equipment of the Swiss
manufacturer Hagelin
(Now Crypto AG) and the former Dutch crypto manufacturer
Philips Usfa (Later: Philips Crypto).
One section was dedicated to the Cold War,
showing a Russian R-353 spy radio set,
a real Russian One-Time Pad (OTP),
hidden in a concealment of a travel kit [4],
and the famous 10-wheel
Fialka cipher machine
that was modelled after the Enigma in the years following WWII.
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