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 ...

J K Rowling’s The Hallmarked Man features the Pigpen Cipher, a centuries-old code once used by Freemasons and revolutionaries ...

How code breakers finally cracked the Zodiac Killer’s cipher 50 years later Posted: Dec 14, 2020 / 06:52 PM CST Updated: Dec 14, 2020 / 06:52 PM CST ...

Copiale Cipher: Computer scientists have cracked the code of the Copiale Cipher, an 18th-century manuscript of a German secret society known as the 'Oculist Order.' ...

A coded message sent by the Zodiac Killer to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 has finally been cracked, the newspaper reported Friday. A team of code breakers solved the vexing cryptogram after … ...

‘I Am Not Afraid of the Gas Chamber': Codebreakers Solve Zodiac Killer Cipher Federal authorities said they believe the code breakers appear to be on solid ground ...

Three codebreakers have cracked the Zodiac Killer's hidden message, 51 years after the serial killer sent it to the San Francisco Chronicle. Read the FBI's response.