We recently had a rainy weekend interrupt our original plans to go geocaching. Instead, I took inspiration from John Baichtel's recent posting - Codes For Kids - to introduce my kids to ciphers.

Like a mirror image of Bedford's Law, mathematicians have found a pattern in prime numbers that raises more questions than it answers. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...

The arena of creating secure environments in the hardware and software industries is somewhat shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. Certainly, some types of ciphers are relatively straightforward ...

A stream cipher is an encryption method in which data is encrypted one byte at a time. In this method, a cryptographic key and algorithm are applied to each binary digit in a plaintext data stream to ...

We recently had a rainy weekend interrupt our original plans to go geocaching. Instead, I took inspiration from John Baichtel’s recent posting – Codes For Kids – to introduce my kids to ciphers.