The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

A French business consultant said he spent two weeks solving the last ciphers of the Zodiac Killer. The online community of internet Zodiac sleuths is annoyed at his ego. Three Zodiac experts told ...

Could the cold case of the Zodiac Killer finally be solved? If French engineer Fayçal Ziraoui is to be believed, the identity of the infamous serial killer who terrorized Northern California ...

Sam Blake, an Australian mathematician, first learned of the Zodiac Killer’s unsolved ciphers — a series of encrypted messages — from a documentary in the 1990s. His interest marginally increased in ...

A French engineer said he solved the two remaining ciphers left by the “Zodiac Killer” after working on them for two weeks in January. Faycal Ziraoui, who designs 3D animations and virtual reality ...

A coded message sent by a brutal serial killer who has never been caught has been cracked more than 51 years after it was sent. This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — A long-held mystery of the Zodiac Killer’s murderous rampage in and around San Francisco has been solved. A code-breaking team from the U.S., Australia and Belgium has cracked ...

ARGENTEUIL, France — Fayçal Ziraoui loves a good challenge. As a teenager, he designed 3D animations. In 2018, he completed an Ironman race. More recently, he developed virtual reality software that ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In recent weeks I managed to decrypt a difficult cipher that, despite expert codebreakers’ best efforts, had remained unsolved for 70 ...