One of history’s most mysterious texts could be a type of encrypted message created in the 1400s, a new study suggests. The Voynich manuscript is a 23.5 x 16.2cm book of about 240 pages, written in an ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program announced its October winners. Hunter Donna Kalil captured the most pythons in October with 21, earning her a bonus award.

Web app using Streamlit to implement various substitution and transposition cipher techniques. Users can input plaintext, select a cipher (like Caesar, Vigenère, or Hill), enter relevant parameters, ...

The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, recently took a bizarre twist.

Over on YouTube, [The Modern Rogue] created an interesting video showing a slide-rule-like encryption device called the Réglette. This was a hardware implementation of a Vigenère-like Cipher, ...

Learn how to implement a classic substitution cipher in C! This step-by-step tutorial walks you through encoding and decoding messages by replacing each letter with another according to a fixed key. A ...