Alan Turing in America – Cryptography | Mathematical ...
www.maa.org › alan-turing-in-america-cryptographyThe play Breaking the Code and the movie The Imitation Game popularized Alan Turing’s decisive role in deciphering codes produced by the German encrypting/decrypting machines. In fact, his interest in cryptography may have been sparked in Princeton when he set out to build the binary-multiplier machine. In any event, Turing spent the war years at Bletchley Park, a country mansion housing Britain’s leading cryptanalysts.
Cryptography and Computation after Turing (Chapter 4) - The ...
www.cambridge.org › core › booksMar 5, 2016 · This chapter explores a topic in the intersection of two fields to which Alan Turing has made fundamental contributions: the theory of computing and cryptography. A main goal in cryptography is to prove the security of cryptographic schemes. This means that one wants to prove that the computational problem of breaking the scheme is infeasible, i.e., its solution requires an amount of computation beyond the reach of current and even foreseeable future technology.
The Enigma of Alan Turing - CIA - Central Intelligence Agency
www.cia.gov › stories › storyApr 10, 2015 · Alan Turing—an English mathematician, logician, and cryptanalyst—was a computer pioneer. Often remembered for his contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence and modern computer science (before either even existed), Turing is probably best known for what is now dubbed the “Turing Test.”. It is a process of testing a machine’s ability to “think.”.