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."

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Mirror to solution.

[chendo]

Here is the 'mirrored' solution.

Re:Congrats.

[DarkOx]

I went to school there for a semester you can walk right up and touch it. Actually they shine light through it at night which is the "Projector" effect and it casts the characters on the surrounding class room buildings.

Clarification: not a DMCA problem

[RobertB-DC]

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.

I'm seeing a lot of messages to this effect, and they're getting modded +1, Funny. But it should be pointed out that the joke falls a bit flat, because the KGB did not encrypt the text on the artwork. The artist encrypted the text for the purpose of posing a challenge to its viewers.

According to the victory announcement, the original text is from "classified KGB instructions and correspondence." Now, if the Russians wanted to make a case, they could try to figure out who stole their classified "correspondence"... good thing that never happens to us. Oops.

Re:Silicon

[focitrixilous P]

You forgot the number one rule of slashdot linking.
You don't link to geocities.
EVER
The link is dead upon posting. Always. Post a google cache if you must.

Re:Why I Hate Postmodernism

[Sivaram_Velauthapill]

It seems like the world doesn't fit into your view of the world so you claim art is dead. First of all, people are creative and things change. Second, new devices, techniques, technology, etc alters the landscape. New forms of art have emerged. For example, the emergence of photography shifted some elements of art into photography. Doing paintings of what exists (ie. nature, people, etc) lost popularity because you can do a "similar thing" with photography. How many people have large posters or photographic pictures of nature whereas they would have had paintings in the past?

In addition, how about movies (motion picture)? Clearly that is art--is it not?

When you say art is dead, what you are really referring to is "classical" art. If you include all forms of art, like motion picture, photography, etc, art is no different than before. It has simply diversified...

Sivaram Velauthapillai