Looking for a history book that would appeal to people who like math? Try "Codebreaker" -- a short history of cryptology: the study of codes and ciphers. Journalist Stephen Pincock, who is an editor ...

Quantum noise stream ciphers utilise the inherent randomness of quantum noise in optical systems to secure data transmission at the physical layer. By embedding cryptographic keys into fluctuations ...

The intriguing world of cryptography has its roots in non-standard hieroglyphics, which were discovered on the walls of an Egyptian tomb in 1900 BC. In India, around 400 BC, “substitution cipher” ...

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 ...

How does a cipher and code, used by a failed politician, dropped into the middle of a trial for treason in 1807, involving then-president Thomas Jefferson and Chief Justice John Marshall, lead to a ...