Ever since writing has existed, people have wanted to send secret messages to one another--and others have wanted to intercept and read them. This is the third installment of the blog series taking ...

NOVA scienceNOW's "Can Science Stop Crime" introduced you to Tadayoshi Kohno, a University of Washington computer scientist who's made it his mission to take over networked machines, identifying ...

Introduction: A revolutionary cipher -- Cryptology before 1500: a bit of magic -- The black chambers: 1500-1776 -- Crypto goes to war: the American Revolution -- Crypto goes to war: the American Civil ...

Since ancient times, people have relied on cryptography, the art of writing and solving coded messages, to keep their secrets secure. In the fifth century, enciphered messages were inscribed on ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The history of cryptography, the art of writing and solving codes, dates back to ancient ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The author's research aims to present a comprehensive and contextualizing history of cryptography based on the rich source material of early ...

If you’ve ever picked up a war novel, you know they tend to deal with the exploits of soldiers and sailors, the dirt and danger of the front lines. Not Neal Stephenson’s “Cryptonomicon.” This ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — No matter how complex they are, most secret codes turn out to be breakable. Producing the ultimate secure code may require encoding a secret message inside the quantum ...