They Bought a Famous Puzzle in Cryptography. Now They’re Opening It Up.

A San Francisco company paid nearly $1 million for the solution to an unsolved code in Kryptos, a sculpture on the C.I.A.

Crypto Guys Bought the Answer to the CIA’s Mysterious Kryptos Sculpture

They swear they haven’t peeked at the closely guarded secret and that they’ll keep the cryptographic competition going.
BBC

Plots, love letters and remedies: The medieval secrets being revealed by AI

Historic messages and documents obscured by incomprehensible ciphers can be found in libraries and archives all over the world. Artificial intelligence is helping historians crack open these ...
IEEE

A Unified Cybersecurity Framework for Smart Grids Against Data Integrity Attacks Using Ensemble Learning and Hybrid Encryption

Abstract: The increasing frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks on smart grid infrastructures have raised critical concerns over data integrity, operational resilience, and real-time response ...
IEEE

A Novel Cipher for Enhancing MAVLink Security: Design, Security Analysis, and Performance Evaluation Using a Drone Testbed

Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are being widely deployed for diverse applications, including surveillance, agriculture, logistics, disaster response, etc. Secure communication between a UAV ...
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AI Still Can't Beat the On-Call Engineer: Here's Why

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ARFBench is the first AI benchmark built entirely from real production incidents. GPT-5 leads all existing AI models at 62.7% ...
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Lombard Finance Dumps LayerZero, Will Use Chainlink to Power $1 Billion in Bitcoin Assets

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lombard Finance is the latest firm to move its assets off LayerZero technology in favor of Chainlink. The firm conducted an ...