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 ...

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 second installment of a blog series taking you ...

From ancient Egyptian tomb inscriptions to today’s quantum encryption, cryptography has been humanity’s shield for secrets. Across wars, political intrigue, and love letters, it has evolved from ...

The history of cryptography, the art of writing and solving codes, dates back to ancient times when people used simple substitution ciphers to encrypt messages. Over the centuries, cryptography has ...

In 2022, Cécile Pierrot, a researcher in Inria's Caramba team (cryptography), had the idea of calling on Camille Desenclos, a specialist in 16th and 17th century cryptography, to successfully decipher ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

For more than 40 years, we have been building the modern internet on foundations that were never designed for the world we live in today. When the architects of the early internet created its ...

In this digital era, many of us benefit from encryption multiple times a day without ever realizing it. When you visit a secured website such as your bank’s website or an online retailer, cryptography ...