Dec. 7, 2024

No Such Puzzle: Reindeer Games

For each #NoSuchPuzzle in December, we provide a clue to a phrase and some of the letters in the phrase. Each clue leads to an answer that contains the letters of one of Santa's reindeer. These letters may appear elsewhere as well. Find the answer to the clue. 

Oct. 12, 2024

No Such Puzzle: Here Be Monsters

Halloween is coming! In each #NoSuchPuzzle for the rest of October, we have given you a sentence that contains hidden within it (ignoring spaces and punctuation) the name of a mythological creature of at least 5 letters. Find the name of the creature.

Oct. 5, 2024

No Such Puzzle: Cybersecurity Awareness Month

NSA honors #CyberMonth with a #NoSuchPuzzle. Help secure the network in the grid by building a firewall to separate the computers from the malicious cyber actors. Then use the counts of the cells inside the firewall to find some sound cybersecurity advice. What is the advice?

Sept. 16, 2024

NSA Launches 11th Annual Codebreaker Challenge for 2024

FORT MEADE, Md. - The National Security Agency (NSA) is launching its annual Codebreaker Challenge, offering students from U.S.-based academic institutions the opportunity to explore real-world scenarios emulating the Intelligence Community’s classified work and preparing them to tackle national security concerns after their graduation. Students will compete against other schools to complete mission-oriented tasks designed to build their skills in reverse engineering, vulnerability research, cryptography, programming/scripting, and more.

Aug. 10, 2024

No Such Puzzle: Tap Codes

The tap code, sometimes called the knock code, is a way to encode text messages on a letter-by-letter basis. It has been used by prisoners to communicate with each other by tapping metal bars inside a cell. For each No Such Puzzle in August, we provide a tap sequence and an indicator for the number of words in the answer and their lengths. Can you solve the code and identify the prison or prisoner of war camp?

Feb. 14, 2024

NSA Awards Authors of Study of Automated Attacks on New Webservers

The National Security Agency (NSA) Research Directorate recently selected “Uninvited Guests: Analyzing the Identity and Behavior of Certificate Transparency Bots,” as the winner of its 11th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition.

Aug. 21, 2023

Post-Quantum Cryptography: CISA, NIST, and NSA Recommend How to Prepare Now

The National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) warned that cyber actors could target our nation’s most sensitive information now and leverage future quantum computing technology to break traditional non-quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. This could be particularly devastating to sensitive information with long-term secrecy requirements.

Sept. 20, 2019

NSA Launches Latest Codebreaker Challenge

FORT MEADE, Md. — Article about NSA launching its 20 September 2019 to 10 January 2010 Codebreaker Challenge competition for students at U.S. based academic institutions.

June 10, 2019

2018 Cryptologic Hall of Honor Member Dick Bernard Receives Award

FORT MEADE, Md. — NSA inducts Mr. Richard L. "Dick" Bernard into the NSA Cryptologic Hall of Honor, May 8, 2019.

July 14, 2017

Decoding the Great War

The National Cryptologic Museum hosts enthusiasts for a discussion on the role of cryptology in World War I.