O JOGO DA MÍMESE E O USO DA CRIPTOGRAFIA

Abstract

This Master's thesis addresses the impact on the use of cryptography in communications during the period of the great world wars. As specific objectives we have: To analyze the effect of cryptography in the context of the great world wars; Understand the political significance / power of cryptography in the twentieth century; Analyze the film: "The game of imitation" taking it as a historical source for understanding the logic of cryptography as a mechanism of power; Historize the development of Enigma machine technology and unveil the power elements behind the use of encryption. The problem would be in what way the encryption starts to influence the structures of power and military actions from the discovery of the cipher of the Enigma machine? We have the following hypotheses: Due to the complexity of international relations, from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, communications between allied nations began to be careful not to be discovered by the spies of rivals. From there begins the effort to develop encryption and coding mechanisms that led to the development of encryption machines until the development of the Enigma machine; The second hypothesis would be that the World Wars speeded up the practices of building cipher machines as a way of defending national secrets; The analysis of the film: "The game of imitation" will show us the role of Mathematics and the action of the University in the process of technological creation to unravel "enigmas".