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Cyrillic Projector Code Finally Cracked
SimuAndy writes "An international group of cryptographers, the Kryptos Group, announced this week that the decade-old Cyrillic Projector Code has been cracked, and that it deciphers to some classified KGB instructions and correspondence. The Cyrillic Projector is an encrypted sculpture at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, that was created by Washington DC artist James Sanborn in the early 1990s. It was inspired by the encrypted Kryptos sculpture that Sanborn created two years earlier for CIA Headquarters. The message on the Cyrillic Projector has turned out to be in two parts. The decrypted first part is a Russian text encouraging secret agents to psychologically control potential sources of information. The second part appears to be a partial quote from classified KGB correspondence about the Soviet dissident Sakharov, with concerns that his report to the Pugwash conference was being used by the Americans for an anti-Soviet agenda."
In other news, the KGB has filed a lawsuit against the Kryptos Group under the DMCA, claiming that their IP has now been stolen.
The sad part of this is that in today's world somrthing similar could happen.
It sounds like a crypto module in KDE.
Trolling is a art,
The USA is going crazy without their old enemy/friend!
and All I got was this lousy T-Shirt!
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Cyrillic code crackers have been arrested by the FBI under the DMCA.
the decade-old Cyrillic Projector Code has been cracked, and that it deciphers to some classified KGB instructions and correspondence.
Thank goodness for that decade-old KGB info. The Cold War will be ours!
The coolest voice ever.
The actual translation is:
Keep information away from Moose and Squirrel.
But, if anybody really wanted to know what it was, all they had to do was put a gun to the artists head. Some people just like doing it the hardway I guess.
I hvae a wnodreulfly tirvial slooiutn but trhee is not enugoh room in the mgrain of tihs book to dsecbire it.
Now the Cold War will finally be over!
:D
Ah, wait, you mean this Iraq operation is not an extension of the Cold War? Why is it going on, then? Why are they cracking the KGB code?
I've seen this cryptographic art all over in the modern art museums. There're paintings, statues, you name it. You can look at them for hours and still not know what the hell they are.
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Isn't that what SCO uses for it's code presentations?
I parsed the story title as announcing that the good guys had finally finished decrypting the font transformation used to obfuscate the source code that SCO projected on screen at that big press conference a few weeks ago. Silly me.
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Have a look at Elonka Dunin, one of the coordinators of the team that cracked this beast. Is that slashdot on her screen? I think it is ;)
-AP
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thank you,
Nikoli out....
Really man, how in the hell did the Russians fit that big ass thing in a decoder ring. The Japanese I can see doing that but the Russkies never.
Actually this is a real technique. It's called "Rubber Hose Cryptography". A few hours beating someone with a rubber hose can be considerably more effective at cracking keys than a supercomputer.
Damiano
Keep information away from Moose and Squirrel.
Vhy voot Rawshians... (excuse me...)
Why would Russians be interested in Moose and Squirrel? Boris and Natash were Pottsylvanian. Not Russian.
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