For over 250 years, the Copiale Cipher baffled historians with its mix of abstract symbols and Roman letters. When linguists…
Dive into the mystery of the Dorabella Cipher, an 87-character encrypted note from famed composer Edward Elgar that has baffled…
While steganography is the art of hiding messages in plain sight, linguistic steganalysis is the science of finding them. This…
Nestled in a courtyard at CIA headquarters, the Kryptos sculpture holds a 30-year-old secret within its encrypted text. While cryptographers…
Poetry often feels like a message in a language we don’t speak, but what if that’s the point? Lexical encryption…
For over 200 years, the secrets of France's Sun King, Louis XIV, were locked away in a fiendishly complex code…
In the high-stakes world of diplomatic communication, some messages are designed to be meaningless. Nullity protocols use a constant stream…
Dive into the legendary tale of the Beale Ciphers, a set of three encrypted messages that promise a fortune in…
Imagine a secret message hidden in plain sight, concealed within a perfectly ordinary letter. The Cardan grille, a simple sheet…
Claude Shannon's information theory provides a mathematical lens to view language's predictability, a concept known as entropy. This predictability, or…
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