[Cryptography] RIP Tommy Flowers MBE

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Fri Oct 27 20:31:04 EDT 2017


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.

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


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