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International Conference on Historical Cryptology
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Welcome Reception 18:00-21:00 at the Linnaeus Garden, Sweden's oldest botanic garden.
Monday, June 18, 2018 MAIN CONFERENCE
09:00 – 09:30 Opening
Arno Wacker – Chair of the Steering Committee
Beáta Megyesi – Chair of the Program Committee
Eva Pettersson – Chair of the Local Organizing Committee
09:30 – 10:15 Keynote
Chair: Beáta Megyesi
Craig Bauer
Updates on the World’s Greatest Unsolved Ciphers
10:15-11:00 Historical Ciphers/Codes
Chair: Gerhard Strasser
Ekaterina Domnina
Nicodemo Tranchedini's Diplomatic Cipher: New Evidence
Camille Desenclos
Unsealing the Secret: Rebuilding the Renaissance French Cryptographic Sources (1530-1630)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Cryptanalysis of Classical Algorithms
Chair: Anne-Simone Rous
Juan José Cabezas, Joachim von zur Gathen, and Jorge Tiscornia
Uruguayan Cryptographic Carpet
Nils Kopal
Solving Classical Ciphers with CrypTool 2
Mark Stamp, Fabio Di Troia, Miles Stamp and Jasper Huang
Hidden Markov Models for Vigenère Cryptanalysis
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13.30-14.15 Keynote
Chair: Bernhard Esslinger
David Naccache and Rémi Géraud
A French Code from the Late 19th Century
14:15-14:45 Coffee break
14:45-16.15 WW1
Chair: Marek Grajek
Karl de Leeuw
The Solving of a Fleissner Grille during an Exercise by the Royal Netherlands Army in 1913
George Lasry
Deciphering German Diplomatic and Naval Attaché Messages from 1914-1915
Ingo Niebel
Learning Cryptanalysis the Hard Way: A Study on German Culture of Cryptology in World War I
Paolo Bonavoglia
New Findings in a WWI Notebook of Luigi Sacco
16:15-16:45 Coffee break
16:45-17.30 Keynote
Chair: Benedek Láng
Katherine Ellison
Cryptology and the Fantasy of Reading
18:30-00:00 Conference Dinner at Norrlands Nation
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 MAIN CONFERENCE
09:00-09:45 Keynote
Chair: Otokar Grošek
Ephraim Lapid
The Israeli Enigma
09:45-10:15 Coffee break
10:15-12:00 WW2
Chair: Karl de Leeuw
Anders Wik
The First Classical Enigmas. Swedish Views on Enigma Development 1924-1930
Marek Grajek
Inventory of Early Inter-Allied Enigma Cooperation
Dermot Turing
The Poles and Enigma after 1940: le voile se lève-t-il?
Magnus Ekhall and Fredrik Hallenberg
US Navy Cryptanalytic Bombe – A Theory of Operation and Computer Simulation
Carola Dahlke
What We Know about Cipher Device "Schlüsselgerät SG-41" so far
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00–15:00 Business meeting
15:00-15.30 Coffee break
15:30-16:30 Keynote: Special Theme on Arne Beurling
Chair: Anders H. Wik
Kjell-Ove Widman
Arne Beurling: Mathematician and Code Breaker
George Lasry
Modern Codebreaking of T52
16:30-18:00 Poster and demo session with exhibition and coffee
Demos
Eugen Antal and Pavol Zajac
ManuLab System Demonstration
Magnus Ekhall and Fredrik Hallenberg
US Navy Cryptanalytic Bombe - A Theory of Operation and Computer Simulation
Nils Kopal
Solving Classical Ciphers with CrypTool 2
Extra demo by the organizers: Beáta Megyesi, Nils Blomqvist and Eva Pettersson
The DECODE database
Exhibition by FRA: Anders H. Wik and Åsa Ljungqvist
Enigma machines
Posters
Noor R. Al-Kazaz, Sean A. Irvine and William J. Teahan
An Automatic Cryptanalysis of Playfair Ciphers Using Compression
Niels O. Faurholt
Willard's System
Anna Lehofer
The Application of Hierarchical Clustering to Homophonic Ciphers
Michal Musílek and Štěpán Hubálovský
Teaching and Promoting Cryptology at Faculty of Science University of Hradec Králové
Klaus Schmeh
Examining the Dorabella Cipher with Three Lesser-Known Cryptanalysis Methods
Jaap van Tuyll
Design and Strength of a Feasible Electronic Ciphermachine from the 1970s
18:00-18:15 Closing
19:00-00:00 Conference Dinner at Restaurant Borgen
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 WORKSHOPS
09:00-12:00 (Automated) Cryptanalysis of Classical Ciphers with CrypTool 2
Workshop organizers: Nils Kopal, Armin Krauss, Bernhard Esslinger
Room: 22-1017
[Coffee break: ca. 10:30-11:00]
Lunch: 12:00-13:00
13:00-17:00 Solving Codes rather than Ciphers. Is there a Software Challenge?
Workshop organizer: Karl de Leeuw
Room: 22-1017
[Coffee break: ca. 14:30-15:00]
Last update 2018-06-14