But thanks to what Sanborn now calls a “monstrous mistake,” just weeks later, Kobek and his friend Richard Byrne revealed they found the plaintext answer to K4 in a public archive — shocking the ...

How does one crack the world’s most famous code? The breakthroughs on Kryptos provide a guided tour through the cat and mouse game between code makers and code breakers that has defined information ...

The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the CIA headquarters, just ...

After working for some time on decoding mysterious encrypted letters, the codebreakers realize that the ciphered messages might be written by Mary Stuart, the Queen of Scots herself, during a critical ...

See how secret letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots, were finally decoded.

A woman who became interested in coding as a child developed her own secret code, but did it so thoroughly she couldn't translate her own writing years later. Ellie, 22 and from Oregon, told Newsweek ...

Prarthana Gopal is an Author at Android Police. With over eight years of experience as a professional author and tech enthusiast, she brings a wealth of expertise to this role. Currently, she ...

Kamala Harris shares her family's Secret Service code names for the first time in her new memoir, 107 Days. Harris's code name was previously revealed as Pioneer. The book recounts the former vice ...

After months decoding mysterious letters, codebreakers realize they may belong to Mary Stuart. After months of working on mysterious encrypted letters, Elizabeth’s codebreakers begin to suspect that ...