Researchers at a German university have broken the encryption of the two main standards used to protect calls from satellite phones, giving them the ability to intercept conversations that are meant ...

Math is hard and cryptography is even harder. So in light of the news that another of the ciphers used to secure traffic on 3G GSM networks has been cracked, we turned to mathematician and ...

A 400-year-old coded text found at the Vatican Library is among the historic documents and messages that are being cracked with the help of artificial intelligence.

A computer scientist at the University of Southern California and two Swedish linguists have cracked a 75,000-character cipher from the 18th century that described the laws of a secret society. The ...

We're celebrating the life, work and legacy of mathematician Alan Turing this week on Wired.co.uk, and part of that legacy is inspiring people to work in cryptography and codebreaking -- so we've ...