Introduction If you need to send a secret message to a friend, how could you prevent other people from reading it? One way is to encrypt the message—that is, use a secret code that only you and your ...

Secret code or foreign language? For machines, it might not matter. Without any prior knowledge, artificial intelligence algorithms have cracked two classic forms of encryption: the Caesar cipher and ...

Cipher-cracking AI isn't just for decoding encrypted data—new research shows it can make quick work out of translating human language. A team of researchers from the University of Toronto and Google ...