[Cryptography] RIP Tommy Flowers MBE
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Sat Oct 27 16:13:00 EDT 2018
We lost engineer Tommy Flowers MBE on this day in 1998; he designed
Colossus (the world's first programmable computer, although arguably not
Turing-complete) which was used to break the German 12-rotor Lorenz
cipher. He also worked on ERNIE, which generated random numbers for the
Premium Bonds.
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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