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Here's your chance to crack ciphers similar to those Bletchley Park's codebreakers faced during World War II. Below, we present three ciphers of different levels of difficulty, from easiest to most ...

You could do worse than to confuse the meanings of "code" and "cipher"—even cryptographers sometime use the terms as though they had the same meaning. There is, however, a definite distinction between ...

The BitLocker encryption method and Cipher strength you set as default is only applied when you turn on BitLocker for a drive. Any changes you make will not affect a drive already encrypted by ...

To get a hint of the monstrously difficult task undertaken by the Venona code breakers, consider all the elaborate steps that Soviet agents took to encrypt a secret message. Here’s how it worked, as ...

Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Ishaq as-Sabbah al-Kindi was a man of many disciplines, born in Kufa, Iraq around 801 AD. He was raised in Basra and educated in Baghdad. There his scholarship brought him to the ...

The cipher controversy is back. The Intercept, an American media outlet known for unearthing secret documents, has claimed to have got hold of the text of the cipher that was at the centre of Imran ...