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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."
have been ex-KGB agents that could have told them the code anyway?
I have over 70 freaks, do you?
Did they manage not to violate any of the new laws in the process?
How difficult is this puzzle? "Not very," Sanborn says. Not nearly as difficult
as his first encoded sculpture -- a work called "Kryptos" that he created for CIA
headquarters in Langley, Va., in 1987. That code, created with the help of a
cryptographer, is so hard to break that the CIA "will never figure it out," he says.
So why is this news for anyone not on the UNC campus?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I used to teach in the art department at UNCC, (before this work was installed). The school has always made a good committment to public sculpture.
Most people on that campus probably don't pay much attention to the artworks around them, which is too bad. Still, it's nice to see a work from the collection there capture people's imagination and enthusiasm.
I wish people would actually listen to other people when they explain, time and time again, why the hell they see no reason to uninstall an operating system that's working fine (and mine is) so they can replace it with another operating system and a collection of emulators.
So try to get this straight:
I am not a clone.
I see great benefits of open source, but I don't like the GPL.
I read slashdot.
I respond.
I even moderate.
And I'm very happy with Windows 98.
What's not broken doesn't need fixing.
No Zen is good zen