Overview
NSA helps defend the Nation and our allies through two clear missions: foreign signals intelligence (SIGINT) and cybersecurity. Cryptology is at the core of what NSA does, and the Agency is home to some of the world’s best codebreakers and codemakers—breaking the codes of our adversaries while securing our own codes to safeguard systems, networks, and sensitive information from prying eyes.
In the history of NSA, employees have often created puzzles—such as the Headline Puzzle in the NSA Newsletter, the CryptoScramble in the Dragon Seeds publication, various puzzles in the Cryptolog publication, and the Daily Puzz—to keep their minds sharp, develop their skills in thinking differently, and discover new and inventive ways of approaching various problems.
NSA makes these unclassified challenges from our puzzling community available to those who want to test their minds, hone creative thinking skills, and perhaps learn a thing or two about the importance of cryptology in history along the way.