The Playfair cipher is an incredibLe code system that is both difficult to decrypt without a computer and easily solvable by hand. You might be familiar with the Cryptoquip in the comics section of a ...

The first step in solving a Playfair given a "tip" or "crib" is to try to determine where that crib goes in the message. We know sentences are separated with STOP, and either the phrase BEWARE ICE ...

The mechanics of the Double Playfair are involved enough that it is expected that solving this cipher would be most readily achieved by a computer program that recovers the first square by shifting ...