Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Ishaq as-Sabbah al-Kindi was a man of many disciplines, born in Kufa, Iraq around 801 AD. He was raised in Basra and educated in Baghdad. There his scholarship brought him to the ...

The BitLocker encryption method and Cipher strength you set as default is only applied when you turn on BitLocker for a drive. Any changes you make will not affect a drive already encrypted by ...

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 ...

This brief message, which former NASA administrator George Low named ‘The Martian Cipher’, was intercepted in 1969. It took the space agency almost 50 years to decode it. This deciphering is arguably ...

From cabbage at 2am to fending off bats – what it was really like to work at Bletchley Park This show on the actual site of the vital Second World War cipher-decoding centre delivers fascinating ...