The cryptic text of a 250-year-old secret society has finally been translated. Researchers from North America and Europe used a powerful computer program to break the code. Daniel Hajek reports on how ...

(USC)The cryptogram reveals the rituals and political leanings of an 18th-century secret society in Germany. A 250-year-old German cipher was cracked by a team of experts recently. The 105 page ...

Computer scientists have cracked the code to the eighteenth-century Copiale Cipher. OR Books will publish a book on the Occupy Wall Street movement by Writers for the 99%, with profits going to the ...

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 ...

BEATA MEGYESI strode past the Pontifical Swiss Guards, in their Renaissance-era uniforms. She was headed not for the Sistine Chapel or St Peter’s Basilica, but the Vatican’s archives. Precious few ...