Tag: encryption
How an app to decrypt criminal messages was born ‘over a few beers’ with the FBI
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Australian and US law enforcement officials on Tuesday announced they’d sprung a trap three years in the making, catching major international...
Declassified Cold War code-breaking manual has lessons for solving ‘impossible’ puzzles
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The United States National Security Agency — the country’s premier signals intelligence organisation — recently declassified a Cold War-era document about code-breaking.
The 1977 book, written...
Cryptology from the crypt: how I cracked a 70-year-old coded message from beyond the grave
The American Survival Research Foundation offered a reward of
$1,000 for cracking one of Thouless’s two codes within three years of his death....