Journalist and historian McKay (The Secret Lives of Codebreakers) offers a sweeping examination of codes, ciphers, and other types of encrypted communication from ancient Greece to today’s ...

The silk dress, which dates to the mid-1880s, in which the pieces of paper containing the code were found. They were tucked in a hidden pocket, the opening of which was hidden by an overskirt. Sara ...

In 1931, Herbert O. Yardley published a tell-all book about his experiences leading a covert government agency called the Cipher Bureau Peter Zablocki - History Correspondent Herbert O. Yardley ...

Dan Brown's new book, "The Secret of Secrets," is perhaps his most ambitious to date: "There's no bigger theme than human consciousness." (Cheryl Senter / For The Times) Writing is hard. Writing books ...