[Cryptography] Happy birthday, Tommy Flowers!

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Dec 21 17:31:10 EST 2019


Tommy Flowers MBE was born on this day in 1905; an electrical and mechanical
engineer, he designed Colossus, arguably the world's first electronic computer,
which was used to break the German "Lorenz" high-level cipher (not Enigma, as
some think).

-- Dave


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