Re: [Boston.pm] October Tech Meeting 11th (next week) / Perl 5.24 & Abe Lincoln's War Cipher

Bill Ricker <[email protected]>
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> Tues Oct 11th, room E51-376
>  Bill Ricker, Perl 5.24 & Abe Lincoln's War Cipher

 Last month, I did my usual Cryptographic History talk before
BLU.org's GPG/PGP keysigning.
 The title was "Transposition Cyphers in Historic Context", looking at
a theory and two specific uses, President Lincoln and German Army
Corps WW1.

 As usual, there was a bit of Perl code used for demonstration - for
Lincoln's. This time, I used the 5.020 experimental features that
we've discussed in new release feature reviews: postderef and
signatures (both promoted to stable in 5.024 so safe to use in real
code).

BLU saw the history, but this month, Boston.pm gets to see the code.

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Note NO NOVEMBER tech meeting - 2nd Tuesday in November in a Leap year
is Election Day - I presume most people will be watching a different
channel that night. Do we want a different night or week ? We usually
do social in December.
Boilerplate details

    Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
    Talk begins at 7:30.
    Refreshments in the hallway prior.
    RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to
[email protected] or Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

FUTURE
* NOV * (2nd Tuesday in November in a Leap year is Election Day, i
think we'll skip, that'll be a busy news night for folks. Worse
competition than World Series or Olympics. We can pick an alternate
date or do a weekend social or off-week social.)
Tues Dec 13th, room E51-376

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Bill Ricker
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