# SECRET CODES with Simon Singh

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Podcast: [Smologies with Alie Ward](https://stenobird.com/podcast/smologies-with-alie-ward-6911815)
Published: 2026-06-26T07:00:00+00:00
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Secret ciphers. Hidden treasure. Mysterious manuscripts. And … hog Latin. Cryptology expert and author of “The Code Book,” Simon Singh finally lets me ask him about Indigenous code-talking war heroes, hidden messages, extinct languages, the oldest of codes and the mathematical padlocks keeping the internet secure. Also: the personalities of letters and words??

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