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 ...

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 ...

The aim of this paper is to trace the development of cipher-writing from the very simple devices of the Ancients to the so-called Chiffre Indéchiffrable, generally called the Vigenère Cipher. The ...