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A mysterious encrypted manuscript of a secret society, meticulously written in abstract symbols and Roman letters, has finally been deciphered more than three centuries after it was first handwritten, ...

Possibly, the earliest known cryptogram (or substitution cipher) is the Caesar Cipher, supposed to have been used by Julius Caesar. Possibly, the earliest known cryptogram (or substitution cipher) is ...

The expert cryptanalyst and the Sunday-puzzle expert alike rely on the fact that letters have their own personalities. As David Kahn writes: “To the casual observer, they may look as alike as troops ...

The so-called 340 Cipher, sent to the San Francisco Chronicle, was finally cracked by an international team from the U.S., Belgium and Australia. Breaking News/Cheat Sheet Intern One of the Zodiac ...

A coded message sent by a brutal serial killer who has never been caught has been cracked more than 51 years after it was sent. This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for ...

More than three centuries after it was devised, the 75,000-character "Copiale Cipher" has finally been broken. The mysterious cryptogram, bound in gold and green brocade paper, reveals the rituals and ...

We seem to have an instinctive fascination for mysteries and, especially, for mysteries that revolve around secret codes. This penchant brought about a publishing sensation in 2003-Dan Brown's novel ...

Sam Blake, an Australian mathematician, first learned of the Zodiac Killer’s unsolved ciphers — a series of encrypted messages — from a documentary in the 1990s. His interest marginally increased in ...

A coded message sent by a brutal serial killer who has never been caught has been cracked more than 51 years after it was sent. This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for ...