Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: State University of Management – Official website of the State –
Students of the Institute of Marketing of the State University of Management visited the Cryptography Museum. The event was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.
Cryptography is a science of information protection methods, the evolution of which the museum tells through the history of communications development. The museum space includes the path from the era of the birth of the idea of written communication between people through alphabetic systems and signs through the industrial era, when radio, telephone, television and telegraph were created, to the modern digital era and computers.
Under the guidance of Olga Vasilyeva, senior lecturer in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations, students became acquainted with a unique collection of encryption equipment and archival documents, most of which were declassified specifically for display in the museum.
The unique exhibition dedicated to encryption methods during the Great Patriotic War deserves special attention. The expression “intelligence enters the war first” exhaustively characterizes the role of intelligence agencies of any state in wars. The main task that the Soviet leadership set for foreign intelligence was to identify the military-political plans of Germany and its allies during the war. Another key task was the organization and use of special operational detachments in the enemy’s rear to carry out reconnaissance and sabotage activities, as well as to assist party and Soviet agencies in developing the partisan movement. Various means were used to solve intelligence and counterintelligence tasks, including radio games. In some periods, state security officers played up to seventy radio games with the enemy simultaneously.
Many of the groundbreaking papers in artificial intelligence were written by people who worked in cryptography and cryptanalysis during World War II. Random sequences of numbers are used as encryption keys for one-time pads, an unbreakable encryption system. The names of people whose work involves protecting state secrets often remain classified for years, sometimes decades. Cryptographers, cryptanalysts, and encryption developers are among them.
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