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Journey back in time to uncover Siyakat, the secret script of the Ottoman Empire. This deliberately complex and stylized writing…
While the Navajo are rightly famous, the Comanche Code Talkers of WWII's European Theater created an equally unbreakable code. Based…
Discover the book cipher, a fascinating method of hiding messages in plain sight using an ordinary book as the secret…
Discover how a 19th-century code-breaking technique, the Kasiski examination, found a new life in the digital age. This method, originally…
From ancient scrolls to encrypted data streams, codebreaking has always been a linguistic puzzle. Now, a new kind of cryptographer…
In 1948, an unidentified man was found dead on an Australian beach with a scrap of paper bearing two Persian…
Discover the homophonic substitution cipher, a clever cryptographic method designed to thwart simple code-breaking. By assigning multiple symbols to common…
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