A 400-year-old coded text found at the Vatican Library is among the historic documents and messages that are being cracked ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Edward Hebern of California designed ...

A coded message sent by the Zodiac Killer to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 has finally been cracked, the newspaper reported Friday. A team of code breakers solved the vexing cryptogram after 51 ...

Sam Blake, an Australian mathematician, first learned of the Zodiac Killer’s unsolved ciphers — a series of encrypted messages — from a documentary in the 1990s. His interest marginally increased in ...