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HISTOCRYPT 2021 ONLINE EVENT

We hereby cordially invite you to spend an interesting half day together on 20 September from 13h CET, dedicated to historical cryptology.

Two special highlights await us:

• David Oranchak, Sam Blake and Jarl van Eycke will give a keynote lecture on "Solving the Zodiac Killer's Cipher"
• Levente Király and Gábor Tokai will introduce us to "The language of the Rohonc Codex" with an online workshop

There will also be a short informative session about the upcoming HistoCrypt meetings, and plenty of opportunity for joint exchange.

Our online event will use the platform Webex, and will be free of charge. Everyone is welcome to join us.

Please register by emailing histocrypt2021@deutsches-museum.de by 5 September 2021.

The link to the online event, further technical details and the handout for the Codex Rohonc workshop will be sent by email shortly before the event.

Programme

Programme	Time (CET)	Duration	Speaker(s)	Session Chair
Time to arrive	13:00h	15 min
Welcome reception	13:15h	15 min	Arno Wacker Carola Dahlke
Workshop The Language of the Codex Rohonc Part 1	13:30h	120 min	Levente Király Gábor Tokai	Benedek Láng
Short break
Workshop The Language of the Codex Rohonc Part 2
Coffee break	15:30h	30 min
Keynote Solving the Zodiac Killer's Cipher	16:00h	60 min	David Oranchak Sam Blake Jarl van Eycke	George Lasry
Coffee break	17:00h	30 min
HistoCrypt: past, present, future	17:30h	30 min	Beáta Megyesi Benedek Láng Carola Dahlke Karl de Leeuw Dermot Turing
Social event	18:00h	Open end

The International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2021) invites submissions of papers to its annual conference on historical cryptology. The conference will be held on September 20, 2021 (Online-Event) and June 20-22, 2022 (Main Conference and workshops) at Trippenhuis, the Headquarter of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

HistoCrypt addresses all aspects of historical cryptology/cryptography including work in closely related disciplines (such as history, history of ideas, computer science, AI, (computational) linguistics, or image processing) that is sufficiently formalized or applied, with relevance to historical ciphertexts and codes.

We welcome everybody interested in the field of historical cryptology (classical cryptography and cryptanalysis) to participate in the event. We invite submissions to HistoCrypt, either short or long paper, for presentation at the conference, which will be evaluated by a program committee. The conference's subjects include, but are not limited to:

• the use of cryptography in military, diplomacy, business, and other areas
• analysis of historical ciphers with the help of modern computerized methods
• unsolved historical cryptograms
• the Enigma and other encryption machines
• the history of modern (computer-based) cryptography
• special linguistic aspects of cryptology
• the influence of cryptography on the course of history
• teaching and promoting cryptology in schools, universities, and the public

Participation in the conference is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper. Submissions from those who are new to the field, particularly students, are very welcome.

We cordially welcome you to Amsterdam!

The Organizing Committee of HistoCrypt 2021

Contact: histocrypt2021@deutsches-museum.de

Photo: Inge Hoogland

Last update 2021-07-22