But for kids interested in solving a different kind of mystery – the making and breaking of codes and ciphers – role models have been few and far between. That’s understandable, since real ...

Now feel free to design some lovely ciphers of various difficulties (and in various languages) with your kids ! A few tools you might need or enjoy : Need to change something from lowercase to ...

Last week, in a new book called The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined (Cambridge University; $5), U.S. Cryptologists William and Elizebeth Friedman gave evidence that should discredit these ...