Conference Program
Conference Program
The programm might still be subject to change. The conference takes place at Deutsches Museum (DM) München.
Monday, June 19, 2023
| 18:00 | Welcome Reception (included in conference fee) | Posthof |
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
| 8:00 | Registration | Forum der Zukunft | |
| 9:00 | Conference Start | Welcome by Carola Dahlke, Arno Wacker and Helmuth Trischler | Forum der Zukunft |
| 9:30 | Keynote 1 (Chair: Carola Dahlke) | *Modern Cryptography: Recent History Talk given by Jörn Müller-Quade | Forum der Zukunft |
| 10:30 | Break | Coffee | Forum der Zukunft |
| 11:00 | Session 1: Teaching (Chair: Eugen Antal) | What is the Code for the Code? Historical Cryptology Terminology by Vasily Mikhalev, Nils Kopal, Bernhard Esslinger, Michelle Waldispühl, Benedek Láng and Beáta Megyesi | Forum der Zukunft |
| 11:20 | Deciphering Secrets Throughout History: An Interdisciplinary Linguistics and Cryptology Course by Christian Millichap and Eunice Kim | ||
| 11:40 | The Making of Fritz Menzer - A Secret Life by Carola Dahlke and Robert Jahn | ||
| 12:00 | Break | Lunch (included in conference fee) | Posthof |
| 13:30 | Session 2: History (Chair: Richard Bean) | International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022 by Colin Layfield and John Abela | Forum der Zukunft |
| 13:45 | Runic cryptography in early epigraphic period (200-700), Short Paper by Sebastien Zimmermann | ||
| 14:05 | A “Mirror for All Traitors”. Captured Ciphertexts from a Portuguese Spy in Dutch Brazil (1646) by Jorgen Dinnissen and Hugo Araújo | ||
| 14:25 | Ottavian Medici and the decline of cryptography in the 17th and 18th centuries by Paolo Bonavoglia | ||
| 15:00 | Break | Coffee | Forum der Zukunft |
| 15:30 | Session 3: Machines & History (Chair: Bernhard Esslinger) | Scherbius and the Enigma Political, Economic and Military Conditions by Claus Taaks | Forum der Zukunft |
| 15:50 | “We just did it!” – Female employees in Swedish sigint during The Second World War by Fredrik Wallin | ||
| 16:10 | A WW2 device for breaking the M-209 encryption machine by Klaus Schmeh and Magnus Ekhall | ||
| 16:30 | Mysteries of P.C. Cadix and its evacuation in 1942/43 by Marek Grajek | ||
| 16:50 | The History of the Development and the Analysis of the Cipher T-310 by Wolfgang Killmann | ||
| 18:30 | Shuttling | Bus Shuttle to Conference Dinner | Departing from DM |
| 19:00 | Social Event | Conference Dinner (included in conference fee) | Undisclosed Location |
| 22:00 | Shuttling | Bus Shuttle back to Deutsches Museum | Returning to DM |
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
| 8:00 | Registration | Forum der Zukunft | |
| 9:00 | Keynote 2 (Chair: Arno Wacker) | Deciphering Mary Stuart’s Lost Letters; Talk given by George Lasry | Forum der Zukunft |
| 10:00 | Break | Coffee | Forum der Zukunft |
| 10:30 | Session 4: Techniques (Chair: Benedek Láng) | Historical Language Models in Cryptanalysis: Case Studies on English and German by Beata Megyesi, Justyna Sikora, Filip Fornmark, Michelle Waldispühl, Nils Kopal and Vasily Mikhalev | Forum der Zukunft |
| 10:50 | On the Combination of Cryptography and Steganography in Seventeenth Century Germany by Eveline Szarka | ||
| 11:10 | Encrypted Documents and Cipher Keys From the 18th and 19th Century in the Archives of Aristocratic Families in Slovakia by Eugen Antal, Pavol Marák, Pavol Zajac, Tünde Lengyelová and Diana Duchoňová | ||
| 11:30 | Alchemical techniques of secrecy. Between ciphers and cryptographic stylistic devices by Sarah Lang | ||
| 12:00 | Break | Lunch (inlcuded in conference fee) | Posthof |
| 13:30 | Session 5: Cryptanalysis (Chair: Bernhard Esslinger) | Deciphering Charles Quint (A diplomatic letter from 1547) by Cécile Pierrot, Camille Desenclos, Pierrick Gaudry and Paul Zimmermann | Forum der Zukunft |
| 13:50 | Armand de Bourbon’s Poly-Homophonic Cipher – 1649 by George Lasry | ||
| 14:10 | Encrypted epigraphy - the case of a mysterious inscription in the Neapolitan church of Santa Maria La Nova by Cosimo Palma | ||
| 14:30 | The cipher of Emperor Rudolf II’s alchemical handbell, Short Paper by Richard Bean, Corinna Gannon and Sarah Lang | ||
| 15:00 | Poster Session with Coffee | Simulating Cryptologic History, Poster by Peter Krapp | Forum der Zukunft |
| The first volume of the Venetian ciphers written by Agostino Amadi, Poster by David Scheers | |||
| 16:00 | Business Meeting | Discuss Present and Future of HistoCrypt with Dermot Turing & Klaus Schmeh | Forum der Zukunft |
| 18:00 | Dinner (not included in conference fee, self-paid) | Biergarten am Nockherberg |
Thursday, June 22, 2023
| 9:00 | Guided Museum Tour to Exhibitions in Deutsches Museum (included in conference fee) | Crypto, Maths, Electronics, etc. |