[Cryptography] Happy birthday, Tommy Flowers!

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Dec 21 15:19:19 EST 2016


Tommy Flowers MBE was born on this day in 1905; amongst other things he 
designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, 
which was used to break the German Lorenz cipher (not Enigma, as some 
think).

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


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