Alan Turing

Amazing! Wow, ‘Mother necessity where would we be?’ The necessity here was to break Hitler’s submarine encryption and in turn it also continued to bring birth to an encrypted form of communication that the allies could use to communicate without the enemy knowing our intentions and locations. I’m sure these encryptions are still being used today with much more combinational layers applied to it. These encryptions can also be the ones we use not just in the military but also in our new age of common technology. Just how we have come a long way with electricity discovered by Benjamin Franklin which runs most of our world today and who made possible the discovery and use of technology that empowered the development of what Turning brought to light and is still being used today.

This is a link to a document explaining the history of encryption and how it is, “one of the oldest forms of science.” It talks about encryption, its purpose, the different forms, how far back it has been traced to where and how we use it today. It also mentions the different people that have had their hand in developing and enhancing its complexity. http://www.giac.org/paper/gsec/1555/history-encryption/102877