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."

Comments

Crack?

[theluckyleper]

Dynamite oughtta crack it...

Re:Crack?

[slAckEr Of dOOm]

Typical gamer - "if you don't understand it, blow it up"

Re:Crack?

[theluckyleper]

But a slacker of doom, on the other hand, would spend years working out a way to decipher it? :P

Re:Crack?

[david.given]

Typical gamer - "if you don't understand it, blow it up"

Now, now. The full saying to the shmup motto is, IIRC:

"If it moves, kill it. If it doesn't move, shoot it until it does. Then kill it."

Unfortunately I can't find a source --- anyone?

I'll bet it says...

[mr_burns]

"Stop goofing off. Get back to work"

Kryptos?

[MikeXpop]

Superman must be shaking in his boots right about now.

97 or 98?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you can't tell how many characters it has, no wonder it's so hard to crack.

I think I got it..

[The Journalist]

There's a "W", then an "e", a space, "a", "r", "e"...

"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.

Re:I think I got it..

[MikeXpop]

Hmm, that's funny. I got...

Be sure to drink your ovaltine

I got it !!

[Dolphinzilla]

Be Sure to drink your Ovaltine.

I have seen a pattern in the information...

[Linker3000]

There seems to be a pattern emerging in Slashdot posts - it can be outlined by the following pseudo-code:

Program GoSlash;
CDate = Today - 1;
..For I = 1 to NumArticles(Fark(CDate));
....If SubjectScore((FarkArticle[I,CDate]) >= MildlyTechnical then
....begin
......NewArticle = Rehash(FarkArticle[I,CDate]);
......SubmitToSlash (NewArticle);
....end;
..next I;
end.

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It's a trap!

[Weaselmancer]

The people who solved the first 3 are currently in jail for DCMA violations. ;^)

Another option...

[krypt0s]

Someone could've just asked me. I'm not THAT complicated.

Oooh, I just figured it out using my calculator

[3770]

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.

Dupe

[morningstar8]

This story is a dupe... The original was posted 5 1/2 years ago. (!) Here's the original story.

Re:metaphorically solved section 4

[gad_zuki!]

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.