Two University of Illinois at Chicago math professors have just embarked on a not-so-secret mission: write a textbook that teaches cryptography and coding theory to middle-school students in a way ...

Coding theory and cryptography are interwoven fields that lie at the heart of secure communication and reliable data storage. The discipline of coding theory focuses on the design and analysis of ...

During World War II, cryptographers cracked Germany's Enigma code by exploiting known language patterns in the encrypted messages. Using the expected frequencies and distributions of certain letters ...