Coding theory and cryptography are interwoven fields that lie at the heart of secure communication and reliable data storage. The discipline of coding theory focuses on the design and analysis of ...

Cryptography is a subject area of long history, playing a crucial role in human society ever since the dawn of civilization. Claude Shannon's 1945 paper ``A Mathematical Theory of Cryptography'' is ...

Two University of Illinois at Chicago math professors have just embarked on a not-so-secret mission: write a textbook that teaches cryptography and coding theory to middle-school students in a way ...