An encryption system is only as good as the number of possible keys to decrypt it. Being limited by the alphabet, the Caesar Cipher has just 25 possible keys, and a computer could try all 25 in ...

Julius Caesar used what's now called a Caesar cipher, to encrypt private correspondence. He would shift the letters in a message forward by three places.

Secret code or foreign language? For machines, it might not matter. Without any prior knowledge, artificial intelligence algorithms have cracked two classic forms of encryption: the Caesar cipher ...

From the time humans started communicating with one another, there has been the need to ensure that unauthorised people do not get access to the information not intended for them. Long before the ...