Professor Emeritus Strasser featured in Atlantic article on the History of Cryptography

The Atlantic interviewed PSU German Professor Emeritus Gerhard F. Strasser for an article on “The Long and Winding History of Encryption,” available online at http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-long-and-winding-history-of-encryption/423726/ (or by clicking the article title). Dr. Strasser and his expertise are introduced as follows: “For Gerhard Strasser, the story begins more than 3000 years ago, in Mesopotamia. Strasser, who studied the history of cryptology for decades at Pennsylvania State University, traces the development of encryption through the Middle East and Europe, and even to India, where it’s mentioned in the Kama Sutra.”