A few months ago, GeekDad's Challenge of the Week was a lovely cipher about famous novels beginnings. I enjoyed solving it and that reminded me of a time where I was teaching younger students (12 to ...

In the context of cryptography, the un-transformed message is known as plaintext, the transformation is known as encryption and the transformed message is known as ciphertext. The encryption process ...

Learn to use the cipher utility with confidence. This Daily Drill Down walks you through using every cipher switch and shows you exactly what happens in the real world when you use these switches.