The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

Colossus, the cipher-breaking World War II computer, is to be pitted against modern computing power in a competition organized by the National Museum of Computing. In an event called the "Cipher ...

In an ironic twist, a British team operating a World War II code-breaking computer has been beaten in a cipher-breaking contest by a German. In the Cipher Challenge, a competition run by the U.K.'s ...

A German coder has beaten the British team operating the legendary WWII code-breaking computer Colossus in a cipher-cracking contest. In the Cipher Challenge, a competition run by the National Museum ...