Some historical lies get repeated so many times, we start believing they are true.

Last time, we used Python to brute-force a Caesar cipher. The Caesar cipher was... A → D B → E a cipher that shifts characters by a fixed amount, as shown here. However, this method has a major ...

Last time, we used Python to create a Caesar cipher. It simply shifts characters by a fixed number. and other fundamentals of cryptographic technology were packed into it. However, the Caesar cipher ...

A researcher has developed a cipher that might provide insights into how medieval scribes produced the Voynich Manuscript’s unreadable writing. Created in the early 15th century, and often called the ...

David Kwong, the magician, branches out with a festive Sunday puzzle. By Caitlin Lovinger Jump to: Tricky Clues | Today’s Theme SUNDAY PUZZLE — Will Shortz, in his print introduction to this grid, ...

A recent study published in the journal Cryptologia presents what its author calls the Naibbe cipher, a manual substitution cipher system that, as he demonstrates, is capable of taking texts in Latin ...

The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, recently took a bizarre twist.

In a new book, 17 specialists analyze the secret military and political activities of the Eastern civilizations of Greece and Rome. The Assyrians, it is revealed, were masters of psychological and ...

“There is a cipher in the book that Strike needs to decrypt,” Rowling said in a teaser. “Pigpen cipher is pretty easy to break if you know the trick of it, because it is a simple substitution cipher.