Where would the media be if it suddenly had to base its reporting and commentary on actual information and analysis, instead of relying on sensational headlines and divisive rhetoric that pits one ...

In what now seems to be a daily ritual—as routine as eating breakfast each morning—the continuing flow of leaks from inside the White House is one part ironic and one part disconcerting. A quick ...

For President Obama, members of Congress, the director of the FBI, and Republican presidential candidates, the subject of encryption has become a popular talking point. In short, it is a crucial ...

The theory that statesman and scientist Francis Bacon was the ghostwriter behind Shakespeare, and embedded the Bard's plays with ciphers, had a major influence on modern cryptography. William F.

Coding theory and cryptography are interwoven fields that lie at the heart of secure communication and reliable data storage. The discipline of coding theory focuses on the design and analysis of ...

The concluding words of Unsolved! are a call to action. Craig Bauer, a US mathematician and editor-in-chief of the journal Cryptologia, ends his hefty history of cryptography by noting that even as he ...