A Cipher to Thomas Jefferson: A collection of decryption techniques and the analysis of various texts combine in the breaking of a 200-year-old code ...

They announced on Tuesday that in July this year, a 27-year-old software engineer living in Toronto, Gil Broza, sent in the correct decryption.

There are a number of different asymmetric encryption algorithms that are in use. Encryption methods that use the same key for encryption and decryption are known as symmetric encryption methods.