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 ...

Secret codes have been used throughout history for a variety of purposes, from sending confidential messages to providing an intellectual challenge for codebreakers. If you’ve come across a secret ...

The 20th century had no shortage of brilliant minds, but perhaps none had as significant an impact on our day-to-day lives as Alan Turing, considered by many as the founding father of modern computer ...

Public key infrastructure (PKI) is a catch-all term for everything used to establish and manage public key encryption, one of the most common forms of internet encryption. It is baked into every web ...

The 2014 movie The Imitation Game opened up the secret world of cryptanalysis – the art of breaking codes. Codes and ciphers have been used in warfare for centuries. One of the best known early ...

Added Ascon-128. Ascon offers authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD), hash, XOF, MAC and PRF. Ascon has won the NIST Lightweight Cryptography competition (2023) and the CAESAR ...

At their simplest, they are used by kids passing notes in class and at their most complex, by governments carrying out military operations. In between, they are used by people every time they pull out ...

Introduction If you need to send a secret message to a friend, how could you prevent other people from reading it? One way is to encrypt the message—that is, use a secret code that only you and your ...

It's 11:13pm on Christmas Eve and I'm on my second viewing of the classic holiday film A Christmas Story. You probably know that it's about Ralphie Parker and his obsession with getting a Red Ryder BB ...