Declaration of truth in reviewing: I have never wanted to make a code in my entire life. Truth of reading experience: This book made me want to start my own codemaker’s field kit. There’s something ...

Hamster Kombat, a popular Telegram-based crypto game launched in March 2024, has grown to over 200 million users. Players assist a hamster CEO in a virtual crypto exchange by mining coins and ...

When Ricky McCormick’s body was discovered in a Missouri cornfield in 1999, police officers discovered something unusual in his pockets: Two curious notes that appeared to be written in code. If ...

How does a cipher and code, used by a failed politician, dropped into the middle of a trial for treason in 1807, involving then-president Thomas Jefferson and Chief Justice John Marshall, lead to a ...

You could do worse than to confuse the meanings of "code" and "cipher"—even cryptographers sometime use the terms as though they had the same meaning. There is, however, a definite distinction between ...

Hamster Kombat, a popular Telegram-based crypto game, invites players to earn up to 6 million tokens through mining and upgrading a virtual crypto exchange. Since its March 2024 launch, the game has ...

Known for his editing of poetry anthologies, Paul B. Janeczko studies another form of often-perplexing writing in Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing, illus. by Jenna LaReau.