Klaus Schmeh

Klaus Schmeh ist Experte für historische Verschlüsselungstechnik. Seine Bücher "Nicht zu knacken" (über die zehn größten ungelösten Verschlüsselungsrätsel) und "Codeknacker gegen Codemacher" (über die Geschichte der Verschlüsselungstechnik) sind Standardwerke. In "Klausis Krypto Kolumne" schreibt er über sein Lieblingsthema.

Gravestones bearing an encrypted or hidden message are rare, and they have a morbid charm. On Reddit, I have found one I hadn’t known before. I have no idea where it is located and what the inscription means.

In 1888, an encrypted advertisement was published in the “Daily Chronicle”. Can a reader decipher it?

Here’s another cryptogram that can be seen in a TV series. Can a reader break it?

David Oranchak, a leading expert on the cryptograms of the Zodiac Killer, has published a video. It’s a must-see for everybody interested in this case.

The Voynich Manuscript is the most famous unsolved crypto mystery in the world. For this reason, I put it at the first position of my top 50 list.

No footage taken at Bletchley Park during WW2 is known to exist. However, an eleven-minute silent film recorded at an outstation nearby has now been published.

Two years ago, I blogged about a beautiful encrypted postcard sent by a man named Fritz to his lover Leni. A blog reader has now made aware of a similar card from the same sender.

The keywords used for the Double Columnar Transposition (DCT) should have relatively prime lengths. But why?

John Haas and Christian Baumann, two blog readers who met when I invited both of them to a get-together in Vienna, have started an interesting project.

A British scientist has discovered four paper sheets that were originally a part of the Voynich Manuscript. This exciting find might finally lead to a reliable dating of the mysterious book.