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 ...

To break the Enigma code during the Second World War, British computer scientist Alan Turing developed a mathematical model to unlock the cipher faster than any human. Today, a group of University of ...

The mechanics of the Double Playfair are involved enough that it is expected that solving this cipher would be most readily achieved by a computer program that recovers the first square by shifting ...