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 ...

Researchers from Stockholm University have developed an artificial intelligence-based tool that can significantly accelerate ...

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 ...

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