Ricky McCormick was discovered dead in a Missouri cornfield in 1999. The only clues were two coded notes in his pocket — ...

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA (CTV Network) — Coded messages found in the folds of a Victorian-era dress were finally cracked by a University of Manitoba researcher almost a decade after they were discovered.

The FBI has confirmed that a coded message from the Zodiac Killer has finally been cracked, more than 40 years after it was sent to the San Francisco Chronicle. The cracked code, however, does not ...

1. Introduction -- 2. From Julius Caesar to simple substitution -- 3. Polyalphabetic systems -- 4. Jigsaw ciphers -- 5. Two-letter ciphers -- 6. Codes -- 7. Ciphers for spies -- 8. Producing random ...

America's greatest unsolved code leads to a $60million treasure - but no one has been able to crack it for 180 years. The mystery of the Beale ciphers begins in 1885, when a small pamphlet with three ...

Decades later, the Zodiac killer remains a fixture in American true-crime culture. Seldom has a cold case been kept so "warm" by public interest. Since the notorious ...

Many of Sanborn's works incorporate the surrounding environment alongside concepts from math and physics. - (Craig Hudson/For The Washington Post) When artist Jim Sanborn talks about “Kryptos,” his ...