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Cryptography

The note from 1888 was written in code.

A Secret Note Hidden in an 1800s Dress Has Been Decoded

A team explores insights about Victorian life and who the woman might have been.

Meg St-Esprit January 16, 2024

The banks of the Schiavoni in Venice, painted by artist Leandro Bassano (1557-1622).

The Hidden Professional Code Breakers of Renaissance Venice

A cabal of early cryptographers helped the government keep secrets and spy on enemies.

Christopher DeCou September 5, 2019

At Bletchley Park, teacups were a bone of contention.

During WWII, Bletchley Park Was Home to Codebreaking and Tea Shenanigans

Staff at "Station X" threw their teacups into lakes and stuffed them into hedges.

Allan Richarz January 31, 2019

With Musical Cryptography, Composers Can Hide Messages in Their Melodies

By mapping notes to letters, some musicians sneak secret words into tunes.

Christina Ayele Djossa March 26, 2018

The manuscript is currently held at Yale University.

Has Artificial Intelligence Cracked the Voynich Manuscript's Mysterious Code?

Send in the bots.

Natasha Frost February 1, 2018

The manuscript is currently held at Yale University.

The World's Most Mysterious Medieval Manuscript May No Longer Be a Mystery

But we're not reading the Voynich manuscript quite yet.

Natasha Frost September 8, 2017

A teenage Beatrix Potter and her pet mouse, Xarifa, in 1885.

Beatrix Potter's Greatest Work Was a Secret, Coded Journal She Kept as a Teen

It took a dedicated superfan 13 years to translate it.

Cara Giaimo June 16, 2017

A Brief History of the U.S. Trying to Add Backdoors Into Encrypted Data

Jessie Guy-Ryan February 21, 2016

A New Clue to One of the World's Most Baffling Cryptographic Mysteries

oriana leckert December 2, 2014

Milton Keynes, England

Bletchley Park

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.