The aim of this paper is to trace the development of cipher-writing from the very simple devices of the Ancients to the so-called Chiffre Indéchiffrable, generally called the Vigenère Cipher. The ...

Secret code or foreign language? For machines, it might not matter. Without any prior knowledge, artificial intelligence algorithms have cracked two classic forms of encryption: the Caesar cipher and ...

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 ...

Cryptography puts the “crypto” in cryptocurrency. It has existed much longer than our digital age and has evolved like languages over the centuries. One of the most famous uses was developed by Julius ...

Mozilla has launched Codemoji as part of its Encryption Matters campaign to teach people about privacy on the web. The Codemoji website provides an easy way to share an emoji-encoded message with ...