Anna E. C. Simoni

Anna Elisabeth Charlotte Harvey-Simoni (1916–2007), Curator of the Dutch section at The British Library's Department of Printed Books (1950–81), was a bibliographer and research librarian who mainly worked on books printed in the Dutch Golden Age.

Anna Harvey-Simoni
Born
Anneliese Simoni

(1916-08-30)August 30, 1916
Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire
DiedJanuary 8, 2007(2007-01-08) (aged 90)
Gillingham, Dorset, United Kingdom
OccupationLibrarian
Spouse(s)William Harvey
AwardsKnight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion, 1998
Academic background
EducationLatin and Italian
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
Academic work
DisciplineBibliographer
Sub-disciplineHistory of printed books
InstitutionsThe British Library
Main interestsClandestine Dutch printing during the Second World War; printing in the Dutch Golden Age
Notable worksCatalogue of Books from the Low Countries, 1601–1621, in the British Library (1990)

Life

Born Anneliese Simoni to a Jewish family in Leipzig on 30 August 1916, she was educated in Leipzig. She studied Latin and Italian at the universities of Turin and Genoa but was unable to complete her course of studies there when the Italian racial laws came into force, and in 1938 she sought refuge in Britain.[1] She eventually obtained her degree at the University of Glasgow. She joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in 1943 and was demobbed in 1946.

Simoni was employed at the British Library at the beginning of 1950, and by the end of that year had been appointed curator of the Dutch section in the Department of Printed Books.[1] She remained in that capacity until her retirement in 1981.[1]

On 24 October 1985 she married William Harvey,[1] taking his name but continuing to publish under her own. In 1991 a Festschrift was published in her honour, Across the Narrow Seas: Studies in the history and bibliography of the Low Countries presented to Anna E. C. Simoni, edited by Susan Roach. Contributors included Lotte Hellinga, Dennis E. Rhodes, Helen Wallis, Jonathan Israel, and T. A. Birrell.

Simoni died at home in Gillingham, Dorset, on 8 January 2007.[1]

Works
  • Publish and be Free: A catalogue of clandestine books printed in The Netherlands, 1940–1945, in the British Library (1975)
  • Catalogue of Books from the Low Countries, 1601–1621, in the British Library (1990)
  • The Ostend Story: Early tales of the great siege and the mediating role of Henrick van Haestens (2003)

Awards
gollark: <@151391317740486657> Do you know what "unsupported" means? PotatOS is not designed to be used this way.
gollark: Specifically, 22 bytes for the private key and 21 for the public key on ccecc.py and 25 and 32 on the actual ingame one.
gollark: <@!206233133228490752> Sorry to bother you, but keypairs generated by `ccecc.py` and the ECC library in use in potatOS appear to have different-length private and public keys, which is a problem.EDIT: okay, apparently it's because I've been accidentally using a *different* ECC thing from SMT or something, and it has these parameters instead:```---- Elliptic Curve Arithmetic---- About the Curve Itself-- Field Size: 192 bits-- Field Modulus (p): 65533 * 2^176 + 3-- Equation: x^2 + y^2 = 1 + 108 * x^2 * y^2-- Parameters: Edwards Curve with c = 1, and d = 108-- Curve Order (n): 4 * 1569203598118192102418711808268118358122924911136798015831-- Cofactor (h): 4-- Generator Order (q): 1569203598118192102418711808268118358122924911136798015831---- About the Curve's Security-- Current best attack security: 94.822 bits (Pollard's Rho)-- Rho Security: log2(0.884 * sqrt(q)) = 94.822-- Transfer Security? Yes: p ~= q; k > 20-- Field Discriminant Security? Yes: t = 67602300638727286331433024168; s = 2^2; |D| = 5134296629560551493299993292204775496868940529592107064435 > 2^100-- Rigidity? A little, the parameters are somewhat small.-- XZ/YZ Ladder Security? No: Single coordinate ladders are insecure, so they can't be used.-- Small Subgroup Security? Yes: Secret keys are calculated modulo 4q.-- Invalid Curve Security? Yes: Any point to be multiplied is checked beforehand.-- Invalid Curve Twist Security? No: The curve is not protected against single coordinate ladder attacks, so don't use them.-- Completeness? Yes: The curve is an Edwards Curve with non-square d and square a, so the curve is complete.-- Indistinguishability? No: The curve does not support indistinguishability maps.```so I might just have to ship *two* versions to keep compatibility with old signatures.
gollark: > 2. precompilation to lua bytecode and compressionThis was considered, but the furthest I went was having some programs compressed on disk.
gollark: > 1. multiple layers of sandboxing (a "system" layer that implements a few things, a "features" layer that implements most of potatOS's inter-sandboxing API and some features, a "process manager" layer which has inter-process separation and ways for processes to communicate, and a "BIOS" layer that implements features like PotatoBIOS)Seems impractical, although it probably *could* fix a lot of problems

References
  1. E. Cockx-Indestege, "Anna E. C. Harvey-Simoni", Quaerendo, 37 (2007), pp. 1-8.
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