codecracking

1 min read 2021-11-12 00:06:28

The Founding Fathers of Cryptography?

It’s Veterans Day, and on an occasion dedicated to giving thanks to all those who served the United States honorably during either war or

1 min read 2021-09-07 23:06:27

[Image courtesy of Derek Bruff.org.] One of my all-time favorite cryptography stories comes from the book The Spy That Couldn’t Spell, a

3 min read 2021-03-30 23:02:57

About six months ago, I shared the story of a secret code lurking in plain sight, sitting atop the Capitol Records Building in Los Angeles. It’s

3 min read 2021-03-25 22:59:53

We’ve talked quite a bit about the importance of Enigma machines in the past. The quest to crack the unbreakable Nazi code machine spanned the

2 min read 2020-10-06 23:01:34

[Image courtesy of MathTutorDVD.] I am fascinated by codebreaking, secret codes, and that whole subgenre of puzzle solving. Probably because I’m

3 min read 2020-08-20 22:59:27

[Image courtesy of Atlas Obscura.] We’ve spent a lot of time over the last few months discussing treasure hunts, but those are far from the only

22 min read 2019-10-15 22:59:15

In January of 2018, it was announced that Hallmark Movies and Mysteries would be teaming up with Will Shortz of The New York Times Crossword to

2 min read 2019-08-06 22:57:53

When it comes to influential puzzlers, it’s hard to top the impact mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing had on the world. Admittedly, there