The cipher controversy is back. The Intercept, an American media outlet known for unearthing secret documents, has claimed to have got hold of the text of the cipher that was at the centre of Imran ...

In a significant relief to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and Vice-Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has annulled their conviction in the cipher case.

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 ...

The Halloween season is upon us, and so too is Destiny 2's annual Festival of the Lost celebration. Most of the spooky elements in the annual event, including the Haunted Forest game mode, have stayed ...

In Part I, you broke a simple cipher. Now try creating a more complex cipher. Cut out the NOVA Decoder Ring and NOVA Cipher Code Ring and the window marked INDEX. You are now going to put this simple ...

A 50-year-old mystery was recently solved when a group of intellectuals decoded a message allegedly sent by the infamous Zodiac killer. The message was sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in November ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Readers Steven K., Eamon and Chris A. send this one in late, a screenshot from Chapter 6 in Dead Space that will help the rest of us decode what the ...