Show "Crypto - words" (s) veiled "

01/10/14

Last Sunday the exhibition "Crypto Parole" (s) velate "dedicated to cryptography, a science that deals with" hidden writings ", was inaugurated in the rooms of the technical naval museum of La Spezia and in the presence of team admiral Andrea Toscano. or methods to render a message "obscured" so as not to be understandable and intelligible to unauthorized persons.

The exhibition, realized thanks to the collaboration between the naval technical museum, the Rover Joe association, the telecommunications and computer science centers of the navy and the telecommunications school of the FF.AA. of Chiavari, presents seventeen encrypting machines of the twentieth century and the reproduction of ten historical ciphers, constituting a unique event in Italy and among the rarest ever, as well as being included in the activities of the European Researchers' Night.

The exhibition, which will remain open until March 2015, can be visited by local staff who will guide you, from 8.30 to 19 for € 1.55.

Source: Military Navy