You probably use these "small utilities" all the time—hashing, encryption/decryption, encoding/decoding, JSON formatting, QR codes, and simple classical ciphers. TroveKit bundles them into a fast ...

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 ...

Cipher is a free and open souce text encoding and decoding app specially designed for elementary os. The Cipher app can currently encode and decode between six different ciphers namely: ...

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 ...

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 ...