You can set BitLocker Encryption Method & Cipher Strength in Windows to help prevent unauthorized access to your system files or the physical drive.

To break the Enigma code during the Second World War, British computer scientist Alan Turing developed a mathematical model to unlock the cipher faster than any human. Today, a group of University of ...

Readers Steven K., Eamon and Chris A. send this one in late, a screenshot from Chapter 6 in Dead Space that will help the rest of us decode what the alien scribblings on the walls mean. Some ...

This brief message, which former NASA administrator George Low named ‘The Martian Cipher’, was intercepted in 1969. It took the space agency almost 50 years to decode it. This deciphering is ...

Reed–Solomon codes have long been celebrated for their robust error-correction capabilities in digital communications and data storage. Decoding algorithms for these codes continue to evolve ...

This cipher is quite difficult with the amount of information available here. Wartime cryptanalysts expected to be able to solve for the keywords after 150 to 200 plaintext-ciphertext pairs were ...

In 1854, Sir Charles Wheatstone invented the cipher known as "Playfair," named for his friend Lyon Playfair, first Baron Playfair of St. Andrews, who popularized and promoted the cipher. Its ...

Al-Kindi’s method of decoding Building on the work of scholars such as Al-Khalil, Al-Kindi introduced frequency analysis to crack the substitution cipher. Scholars of the Quran had been trying to ...