480-year-old cipher from Mary, Queen of Scots reign to go on show at Scottish university

Mary was three years old when the ledger was filling up with the expenses of protecting her kingdom. The Earl of Arran, Regent of Scotland, had renounced an earlier treaty promising her in marriage to ...
usace.army.mil

Army's first cipher office broke the code on modern cryptology

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. -- When Ralph Van Deman established the War Department's intelligence organization shortly after the United States entered World War I, he was faced with the daunting task of ...
The New York Times

CIPHER CODE WAS STOLEN.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
PBS

Decoding Nazi Secrets

In Part I, you broke a simple cipher. Now try creating a more complex cipher. Cut out the NOVA Decoder Ring and NOVA Cipher Code Ring and the window marked INDEX. You are now going to put this simple ...
Salon

Zodiac’s cipher codebreaker speaks out: Killer was his own self-defeating “publicist”

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 ...