Each year, the National Security Agency hosts the Codebreaker Challenge – an annual cryptanalysis and reverse engineering event that gives U.S. students a hands-on experience working with an NSA mission-centric scenario that showcases the type of work the agency does every day. The challenge for 2023 will launch in late September and NSA will soon begin accepting registrations for the event.

To discuss more about the Codebreaker Challenge and the push to attract more students to computer science, engineering and other tech and cyber fields, Rita Doerr,  academic outreach lead at the NSA's cybersecurity directorate, joins my CyberScoop colleague Elia Groll for a conversation.

Inside the NSA’s Codebreaker Challenge

Can you tell your real individual from your robot agent? In the ultimate game of Bot or Not, would you stake $26m of your own money on it? en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find data, audio credits, further reading, and a transcript of the podcast at the blog: wp.me/paoUKh-tt

S02E10 - Bot or Not

S02E10 - Bot or Not (voice only)

Did Shakespeare really write, well, Shakespeare? Or is the Swan of Avon a five century old con? This final episode in this slowburn mini-series looks at one of the highest profile efforts to set down an authoritative answer - and all the questions it raised. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find data, audio credits, further reading, and a transcript of the podcast at the blog: https://wp.me/paoUKh-tN

S02E08 - Slowburn Shakespeare, Part 6 of 6

S02E08 - Slowburn Shakespeare, Park 6 of 6 (voice only)

A podcast covering the latest news & trends facing top government leaders on topics such as technology, management & workforce. Hosted by Billy Mitchell on FedScoop and released Monday-Friday.

en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, language mysteries, cryptography, codes, language and the law, linguistic crime, undeciphered languages, and more, from past to present. Credits, links, podcast transcripts and more in the Case Notes: wp.lancs.ac.uk/enclair

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