Secret code or foreign language? For machines, it might not matter. Without any prior knowledge, artificial intelligence algorithms have cracked two classic forms of encryption: the Caesar cipher and ...

The message is called the plaintext because it is the unchanged source information. Example: The cat ran away. The secret message generated is called a cipher or ciphertext and it is the encrypted ...

You probably use encryption, in one form or another, every day. You might not know that you are, but you are. And my guess is that you don’t give it a second thought. Do you have a subscription based ...

To break the Enigma code during the Second World War, British computer scientist Alan Turing developed a mathematical model to unlock the cipher faster than any human. Today, a group of University of ...

At the US Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, there is a monument to secrecy that has vexed both professional and amateur codebreakers for over two decades. Erected in ...

Mozilla has launched Codemoji as part of its Encryption Matters campaign to teach people about privacy on the web. The Codemoji website provides an easy way to share an emoji-encoded message with ...

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Science prodigy Johannes Jacobus Deysel, a Gr. 11 learner at the Jim Fouché High School in Bloemfontein will be testing his scientific ability internationally against his peers at the National Taiwan ...