GCHQ Christmas Codebreaking Challenge

Looks like fun. Details here...

Mary Queen of Scots Letters Decrypted

This is a neat piece of historical research. The team of computer scientist George Lasry, pianist Norbert Biermann and astrophysicist Satoshi Tomokiyo--all keen cryptographers--initially thought the batch of encoded documents related to Italy, because that was how they were filed at the...

Zodiac Killer Cipher Solved

The SF Chronicle is reporting more details here, and the FBI is confirming, that a Melbourne mathematician and team has decrypted the 1969 message sent by the Zodiac Killer to the newspaper. Theres no paper yet, but there are a bunch of details in the news articles. Heres an interview with one of...

Divers Pull Rare Surviving WWII Enigma Cipher Machine from Bottom of the Baltic

German divers for the environmental group World Wildlife Fund were searching the ocean floor for abandoned nets threatening marine wildlife. What they found instead is a treasured piece of computing history, a World War II-era German Enigma crypto machine, sunk to the bottom of the Baltic Sea to...

Basic Codebreaking Lesson - Number, ENIGMA, ROT13

Document Title: =============== Basic Codebreaking Lesson - Number, ENIGMA, ROT13 References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/13.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOsYWvWTBA Release Date: ============= 2011-06-11 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Basic Codebreaking Lesson - Number, ENIGMA, ROT13

Document Title: =============== Basic Codebreaking Lesson - Number, ENIGMA, ROT13 References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/13.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOsYWvWTBA Release Date: ============= 2011-06-11 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...