How does one crack the world’s most famous code? The breakthroughs on Kryptos provide a guided tour through the cat and mouse ...

Declaration of truth in reviewing: I have never wanted to make a code in my entire life. Truth of reading experience: This book made me want to start my own codemaker’s field kit. There’s something ...

When Ricky McCormick’s body was discovered in a Missouri cornfield in 1999, police officers discovered something unusual in his pockets: Two curious notes that appeared to be written in code. If ...

The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the CIA headquarters, just ...

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 ...

It was the spring of 1942. America’s back was against the wall. The Japanese Navy ruled the Pacific. Pearl Harbor was still in ruins. In a dim basement beneath Pearl, Commander Joseph Rochefort ...

1. Introduction -- 2. From Julius Caesar to simple substitution -- 3. Polyalphabetic systems -- 4. Jigsaw ciphers -- 5. Two-letter ciphers -- 6. Codes -- 7. Ciphers for spies -- 8. Producing random ...

Hamster Kombat, a Telegram-based crypto game launched in March 2024, has introduced new ways for players to earn up to 6 million tokens for free. The game has gained over 200 million users worldwide.