This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2016 http://gotoams.nl Simon Singh - Science Writer based in London ABSTRACT In "The Code Book", a history of cryptography, the author Simon Singh included ten encrypted messages with a prize of £10,000 for the first person or team to decipher all of them. Thousands of amateur and professional codebreakers took up the Cipher Challenge, but it took over a year [...] Download slides and read the full abstract here: http://gotocon.com/amsterdam-2016/presentation/Closing%20Keynote:%20Cracking%20the%20Cipher%20Challenge https://twitter.com/gotoamst https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConference http://gotocon.com