On the anniversary of Alan Turing’s death on June 7th 1954, Hong Kong Radio 3’s Phil Whelan and I looked at the past, present and future of encryption and paid homage to this incredible scientist and father of Artificial Intelligence. We also managed to squeeze in a few of the an.

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