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Cyrillic Projector Code Finally Cracked

Posted by simoniker on from the ending-world-wars-next dept.

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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  1. MOD PARENT DOWN -- HE IS HOMOSEXUAL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You sir, are a redundant fag, lol :)

    In Soviet America FAGS rape you, kthxlolbye :)

  2. War on terror? by Cerdo · · Score: -1, Troll

    We will go to war by breaking statues...any left out there?

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  3. evaluate parent post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mods.. please read the article before modding up or down.

  4. Its a "related article"! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mods, please evaluate unbiasedly.

  5. That's nothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Gaprindorth-Einger Association has been cracked.

  6. My god by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why is modded down for heaven's sakes?

  7. MOD PARENT UP - simoniker you fag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    simoniker is a fag for letting this excellent post get such a bad moderation!

    The troll moderators are getting out of hand, free mod points to everyone!

  8. Re:modern art by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The parent was modded up as insightful? Funny sure, but insightful shows a complete misunderstanding of art by the slashdot community. Please try reading and going to a few lectures on art and criticism.

    Just because you know what you like, doesn't mean you know good art.

  9. In Soviet Russia... by rokka · · Score: -1, Troll

    In Soviet Russia you weren't allowed to crack codes. Today it's the other way around...

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  10. In soviet russia... by ihatesco · · Score: -1, Troll

    you sue the DMCA.

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  11. Re:text of the article by pVoid · · Score: 0, Troll
    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.