Cryptology is the study of the process of communicating in or deciphering secret writings or ciphers.

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magazine article: Dbo zpv sfbe uijt? Ju’t b tfdsfu dpef! If you don’t understand that, it is because I wrote it in a secret code. Read article

word game: Tommy sent a message in secret code to his mum. Because she's very clever she understood. Will you? Play game

story: When Calloway sent a message in code from the war front in order to get it past the censors, the whole office of the New York Enterprise newsaper got to work to decipher it and reveal the biggest scoop of the year. Read story

cartoon: "Do we have any talking parrots?" "No, but we have a woodpecker ...". See cartoon

trivia: Place: Bletchley Park: top-secret location where the British worked on the ideas for breaking Enigma that they had gained from the Poles at a meeting in the Pyry forest in Poland in 1939. See more cryptology trivia

links: Frode Weierud’s Cryptology Page See more links

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