We all have secrets to keep. Those secrets could be personal dirt we want to keep from others, or they could be something as mundane as our credit card numbers or medical histories. But all of us have ...

This was one of the most secure hand ciphers used in the Second World War. It was used by both the Allies and the Axis, and served both well. Its main weakness was that if the attacker intercepted two ...

It’s been a couple of Math Mondays since we last looked at columnar transposition ciphers, so let’s jump back in. In the It’s been a couple of Math Mondays since we last looked at columnar ...

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Transposition is the art of cryptography in which the letter is replaced from its original position. There is no cipher and the ...

Introduction to ciphers and substitution. Alice and Bob and Carl and Julius: terminology and Caesar Cipher ; The key to the matter: generalizing the Caesar Cipher ; Multiplicative ciphers ; Affine ...

Cryptography is nearly as old as human language. Many civilizations felt the need to conceal their messages using more or less sophisticated encryption methods, as demonstrated by some documentary ...