Ciphers and Crime
This page is about ciphers and crime.
True Crime is ein populäres Thema. Besonders spannend sind Kriminalfälle, in denen Verschlüsselung eine Rolle spielt.
Classical cryptography
An unknown man died and left behind a cryptic message
In the unsolved case of Ricky McCormick, two cryptic handwritten notes found in his pocket after his death in 1999 remain undeciphered.
A ticket-counter robber created an encrypted text.
Steganography
An unusual spy-cipher story from World War II
An unusual spy-cipher story from World War I
Modern ciphers
A financial criminal who encrypted his files
Racketeering records
The FBI’s codebreaking unit has published a few interesting racketeering records
A murderer whose motive was uncovered through the analysis of racketeering records
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