A 400-year-old coded text found at the Vatican Library is among the historic documents and messages that are being cracked ...

A newly invented cipher may shed light on how the mysterious Voynich manuscript was made in medieval times.

The concluding words of Unsolved! are a call to action. Craig Bauer, a US mathematician and editor-in-chief of the journal Cryptologia, ends his hefty history of cryptography by noting that even as he ...

In today's world, encryption plays a vital role in all aspects of data protection and cybersecurity, ensuring that unauthorized individuals cannot access the information you transmit or store. However ...

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.

Some people will go to any length to read a book. Kevin Knight, a senior research scientist and fellow at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California (USC), was ...

A new study suggests the Voynich manuscript, written in an unknown script sometime in the 1400s, could be a type of encrypted message. Science journalist Michael Greshko created the 'Naibbe cipher', a ...