[Sam Greydanus] created a neural network that can encode and decode messages just as Enigma did. For those who don’t know, the Enigma machine was most famously used by the Germans during World War II ...

Ever since writing has existed, people have wanted to send secret messages to one another--and others have wanted to intercept and read them. This is the second installment of a blog series taking you ...

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 ...