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Decrypting Kryptos
angkor writes "Kryptos is a sculpture located on the grounds of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Installed in 1990, its thousands of characters contain encrypted messages, of which three have been solved (so far). There is still a fourth section at the bottom consisting of 97 or 98 characters which remains uncracked."
Dynamite oughtta crack it...
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"Stop goofing off. Get back to work"
"Let him go, Ralph. He knows what he's doing." --Otto Mann (simpsons)
And if you decrypt it all, dark suited men show up at your door and demand a kidney, or worse.
Mercury Rising anyone?
El Saladhead
Superman must be shaking in his boots right about now.
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
If you can't tell how many characters it has, no wonder it's so hard to crack.
"We are"..."
There's more! "s", "o", "r", "r", "y"
"We are sorry"...We knew this!
"f", "p", "r" - "We are sorry for" - "t", "h", "e", - "We are sorry for the what!?!
"i", "n", "c", "o", "n", "v", "e", - almost got it - "n", "i", "e", "n", "c" "e".
"We are sorry for the inconvenience"? You bastard!!
*Apologies to DNA, who orignially used this idea as God's final message to the univers.
where that's kid from mercury rising when you need him.
Runnin' On Empty
Be Sure to drink your Ovaltine.
stupid decoder ring
Yes, he could've used ye olde book of random numbers, for a laugh.
If so, he'll get what's coming to him in the geek afterlife: An eternity of this.
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AT&ROFLMAO
The people who solved the first 3 are currently in jail for DCMA violations. ;^)
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Someone could've just asked me. I'm not THAT complicated.
This is not the sig you're looking for.
That is true. This appears to be covered under the DMCA. Unencrypting that last part of a proprietary work will wind you up in jail. Leave it alone for gods sake!!!
A priest, a doctor, and an engineer are playing a round of golf. They get behind a pair that is playing amazingly slow. After some time they realize that these two men are blind. "What a sad way to spend one's life," said the priest. "I will say a prayer for them." "I have a good friend that is an eye surgeon," said the doctor, "maybe I could get them some help." The engineer thought for a second, "Why don't these guys play at night?"
I don't get it though.
The Internet is full. Go Away!!!
My God it's a cookbook.
It is interesting to note that Elonka Dunin (one of the most prominent people involved with the cracking of Kryptos and the Cyrillic Projector) put a slashdotting in her timeline of important Kryptos events.
Hikery.net - The best hiking site ever. Made by yours truly.
Why does it seem that that is becoming the new goatse?
Christmas should be capitalized.
;-)
What makes you think it isn't?
Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
This story is a dupe... The original was posted 5 1/2 years ago. (!) Here's the original story.
Christ, is there a "nutters" web template out there? Every site dealing with bible codes, aliens, newagey psuedo-science, etc have the same starry (or psychedelic) background, fonts that are way too big and colorful for proper reading, etc. I guess its all the best. Its like a big sign screaming "This guy is nuts!"
I swear, I was half expecting a "See you at Time Cube Con '05" at the bottom the page.
. . .
George Smiley,
Asst. Attorney to
Director, National Security Agency
Chief, Central Security Service
(NSA Information Assurance Department)
Date As Decrypt Key
Re: Unauthorized Use and Disclosure of Intellectual Property
VIA FEDERAL EXPRESS
Dear Cryptanalyst,
I serve as legal counsel to the NSA Information Assurance Department, owner of extensive intellectual property rights and trademarks pertaining to the use, distribution and deployment of intelligence worldwide. In fact you may have heard of us. To make you fully understand our concern and the reach of our recognised brands throughout the world, let me put it this way, we do what RIAA only dreams they could.
It has recently come to our attention that John Doe, in personam, i.e. youself, the only possible recipient of this message has sought to circumvent our intentional copy protection of classified communications, thereby exposing our proprietary materials, name, marks, trade dress, intellectual property and good will to possible illegal misuses including but not limited to commercial exploitation or karma whoring on Slashdot.
By reading this message you have violated federal laws, including (among others) the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Economic Espionage Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Wiretap Act, the Legal Lobbyist Retirement Protection Act, and the Consumer Fraud and Abuse Act, as well as State of Wisconsin Natalie Portman 3D Redistribution Act (HP Amendment). (We're the NSA, we know about that one too.)
Therefore we require that you immediately CEASE AND DESIST from any and all activities causing, leading to or which might be construed to result in the actual or potential dissemination of the proprietary information and excellent legal drafting contained herin. Under the terms of the DMCA, inter alia, we inform you that henceforth your knowledge of this text will be deemed to be a Circumvention Device, and as such we are required to place restrictions on your person. Kindly call me on the number below and await instructions. Do not move, do not try to escape, do not pass go and do not collect $200 (that's all we have left after spending $20Bln on the Great Monument to ourselves you see before you.)
Failure to comply with these requests may expose you or your organization to an action for injunctive relief or monetary damages, and any other relief permitted under state and federal law, including court costs and attorneys' fees. You may also wish to consider and examine the potential criminal consequences, under theories of aiding and abetting and conspiracy to denigrate the agencies elite avant-garde sculptural skills.
If you fail to comply with these requests we will have to invoke recourse under the Homeland Bitchslap Act of 2001.
Sincerely,
George "W" Smiley.
P.S. Son, you should have just applied through personnel. Way back when I was a junior we dreamed up this sucker distract the Russians who'd waste all their time drinking vodka and analysing it just to get one over us. Don't worry, I'll tell your Ma it was friendly fire.
If only those math nerds could think outside the box like your girlfriend. She's such a lateral thinker. It really is amazing that she figured out the whole puzzle in one glance.
I used to bulls-eye womp-rats in my pants
In frontpage if you type certain things the paper clip pops up:
"Hi! It seems like you are nuts! Would you like to use the Nutter's Template?"