In memorium: Tommy Flowers MBE
Dave Horsfall <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Oct 2019 08:06:06 +1100 (EST)
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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 _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list [email protected] https://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography