The Voynich manuscript—a mysterious medieval book that has defied translation for centuries—may have been created using a special code developed with the help of cards and dice, a new study suggests.

Abstract: Java offers the Java Native Interface (JNI), which allows programs running in the Java Virtual Machine to invoke and be manipulated by native applications and libraries written in other ...

The Voynich manuscript — often called the most mysterious manuscript in the world — has eluded attempts to understand its origin, nature, and purpose for centuries. Its text is made up of a strange ...

The Cipher class, central to the javax.crypto package, abstracts encryption/decryption through a provider-based architecture that delegates to pluggable CipherSpi implementations for ...

The Cipher class, central to the javax.crypto package, abstracts encryption/decryption through a provider-based architecture that delegates to pluggable CipherSpi implementations for ...

Mojang has dropped some huge news for Minecraft Java players - especially those that love to mod. While the modding scene is already thriving in Minecraft, it's not as accessible as you'd expect for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kryptos sculpture sits in front of the CIA headquarters in Virginia. (Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images) The ...

The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, recently took a bizarre twist.

Learn how to implement a classic substitution cipher in C! This step-by-step tutorial walks you through encoding and decoding messages by replacing each letter with another according to a fixed key. A ...