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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Re:text of the article

[pVoid]

You know, I appreciate the article, but to me it sounds very tainted. Not in the facts, but in the interpretation... "The current administration sees through Arafat's charade"

Would he have us belive the cold war was entirely run by the Soviet Union? That while the soviet's were busy working on this, the CIA was tending the flowers on capitol hill?

It's all a game. They're all puppets, and this 'exposition of facts' doesn't change in the least bit the current situation of the people. The people Israeli or Palestinian facing death on a daily basis...

If anything, the US should be backing down, and toning down their side of the affair since the USSR is no more. But at this point, it's too engrained in the people.

Tough luck Pacepa... you were a peon just like anyone else. If you're in jail, you're either someone's bitch or their dady. It appears to me what you are doing right now is a continuation of what your work was back in the soviet block: selling ideals... or sharades as you call them. Except, in capitalist America, with a craving for vengefullness, you're going to get rich doing it.