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 ...

You could do worse than to confuse the meanings of "code" and "cipher"—even cryptographers sometime use the terms as though they had the same meaning. There is, however, a definite distinction between ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple ...