For decades, a handful of Dead Sea fragments written in an unknown alphabet sat in scholarly limbo, legible in shape but mute in meaning. Now a researcher has finally cracked that hidden script, ...

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 ...

In today's world, encryption plays a vital role in all aspects of data protection and cybersecurity, ensuring that ...

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 ...