Post by rabiakhatun on Nov 3, 2024 2:50:12 GMT -8
Unlike the museum in the US, which is dedicated specifically to the American history of cryptography, ours is not limited to the domestic past - in this regard, I liked it much more. Moreover, it does not hide the most unpleasant pages of the creation of domestic encryption technology, namely, the sharashkin offices in content writing service which Soviet cryptography was created. It is in the building of such a "sharashkin office" that the cryptography museum is located. It seems that overseas democracy has not been noticed in using the labor of prisoners for the cryptographic benefit of the Motherland's secrets (at least I have not heard of such a thing).
For me, the tour began not with the main exhibition of the museum, but with the part that told about sharashkin offices and in which samples of Soviet encryption technology were presented. Of course, it surprised me a little with its clumsiness I admit that such complexes weighing tens of kilograms, and no one could steal them; because you can hardly carry them off.
It's quite funny to compare the presented samples with the film "From Russia with Love", where James Bond spends the entire film running after a Russian cipher machine (and a cipher clerk at the same time), which he places in the pocket of his jacket
If you look closely at the photo, you can see that only the development of individual "hardware" was completed in 2002 and their active exploitation began. I imagine that it was around this time that I started working at Cisco, when such monsters were used to protect domestic secrets.
And here I was a little bit hooked by the fact that the exhibition of achievements of the cryptographic industry ends somewhere at the level of the late 90s - early 2000s. I would be glad to see something a little more modern. If not from the area of state secrets (who would show them), then at least from the commercial market. I would be happy to look at the products of Infotex, Informzashita (when it had not yet separated from it "Security Code"), LAN Crypto and other players in domestic cryptography. We have something to brag about and our companies, it seems to me, would be glad to share something from their "museums".
But let's get back to the museum, which begins with a keyhole, passing through which you get into... no, not the world of cryptography yet, but the world of modern technologies. I understand the idea (as it seems to me) of the authors, who wanted to interest children from the very first steps, who may not be interested in immersing themselves in ancient times, but they will happily press the buttons of interactive panels, take a VR tour about quantum technologies, try to open a cabinet with a secret, etc. They will also be casually told about modern cryptography and its role in modern communications. Also in this section of the museum there are references to cybersecurity, hackers and other topics familiar to us.
For me, the tour began not with the main exhibition of the museum, but with the part that told about sharashkin offices and in which samples of Soviet encryption technology were presented. Of course, it surprised me a little with its clumsiness I admit that such complexes weighing tens of kilograms, and no one could steal them; because you can hardly carry them off.
It's quite funny to compare the presented samples with the film "From Russia with Love", where James Bond spends the entire film running after a Russian cipher machine (and a cipher clerk at the same time), which he places in the pocket of his jacket
If you look closely at the photo, you can see that only the development of individual "hardware" was completed in 2002 and their active exploitation began. I imagine that it was around this time that I started working at Cisco, when such monsters were used to protect domestic secrets.
And here I was a little bit hooked by the fact that the exhibition of achievements of the cryptographic industry ends somewhere at the level of the late 90s - early 2000s. I would be glad to see something a little more modern. If not from the area of state secrets (who would show them), then at least from the commercial market. I would be happy to look at the products of Infotex, Informzashita (when it had not yet separated from it "Security Code"), LAN Crypto and other players in domestic cryptography. We have something to brag about and our companies, it seems to me, would be glad to share something from their "museums".
But let's get back to the museum, which begins with a keyhole, passing through which you get into... no, not the world of cryptography yet, but the world of modern technologies. I understand the idea (as it seems to me) of the authors, who wanted to interest children from the very first steps, who may not be interested in immersing themselves in ancient times, but they will happily press the buttons of interactive panels, take a VR tour about quantum technologies, try to open a cabinet with a secret, etc. They will also be casually told about modern cryptography and its role in modern communications. Also in this section of the museum there are references to cybersecurity, hackers and other topics familiar to us.