Encryption

  • My husband read my journal

    There were some pretty unflattering things in there, written before we were married.
    By Cary Tennis May 3, 2007

  • The case of the missing code

    Are al-Qaida terrorists hiding their secrets in eBay photographs?
    By Farhad Manjoo July 17, 2002

  • Pretty geeky privacy

    More and more people want powerful, easy-to-use encryption software, but the commercial world isn't providing it. Can open source deliver?
    By Bill Lamb March 27, 2002

  • The encrypted jihad

    We can't stop terrorists from using uncrackable codes. So we shouldn't even try.
    By Barak Jolish February 4, 2002

  • Don't blame it on Reno

    As Congress gears up to point fingers over pre-9/11 intelligence failures, the Clinton attorney general can plead: "I told you so"
    By Jake Tapper January 2, 2002

  • Crypto for the people

    In Steven Levy's new book, paranoid freedom fighters armed with weapons of encryption face off against Big Brother.
    By Andrew Leonard January 24, 2001

  • Is John Ashcroft a geek's best friend?

    The pro-life, pro-Confederacy, pro-guns attorney general nominee is also pro-privacy.
    By Damien Cave January 5, 2001

  • Twilight of the crypto-geeks

    Lone-wolf digital libertarians are beginning to abandon their faith in technology uber alles and espouse suspiciously socialist-sounding ideas.
    By Ellen Ullman April 13, 2000

  • The tell-tale cipher

    Could a mysterious cryptograph be a final message from Edgar Allan Poe?
    By Jeffery Kurz March 8, 2000

  • Criminal code?

    A judge's decision to ban a DVD-playing Linux program and all discussion about it outrages the free-software community.
    By C. Scott Ananian February 9, 2000

  • The code ahead

    Simon Singh, author of "Fermat's Enigma" and "The Code Book," talks about once and future cryptography.
    By Margaret Wertheim November 4, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Camille Paglia rages about religion; uncovering the history of "St. James Infirmary"; what's so unique about masturbatory time travel?
    Letters to the Editor October 13, 1999

  • "The Code Book" by Simon Singh

    A fascinating and remarkably accessible history of cryptography that ends with a $15,000 contest.
    By Joshua Kosman October 6, 1999

  • Deep code

    Neal Stephenson talks about the history of secrecy, the role of equations in art and the glory of open-source software.
    By Andrew Leonard May 19, 1999

  • Privacy pleas

    Amitai Etzioni's "The Limits of Privacy" sees civil libertarians as a danger and government as the solution to all our problems.
    By Mike Godwin April 26, 1999

  • Revenge of the "early adopters"

    Angry DVD owners didn't like Circuit City's new video-rental technology -- so they fought back on the Net.
    By Andrew Leonard April 29, 1998

  • Online ticketing, Part 2

    Online ticketing, Part 2: Jenn Shreve compares the features and bugs of the four main online travel services.
    By Jenn Shreve February 2, 1998

  • I booked it online

    Is online travel booking really the way of the future? Jenn Shreve assesses the advantages of online travel services.
    By Jenn Shreve January 30, 1998
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