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Decrypting Kryptos

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the free-tshirt-to-the-winner dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Is there a solution? by ncurses · · Score: 5, Insightful

    of course not, it's just some random chars generated by the Arethusa cipher, seeded with the string COMSTOCK.

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  2. Re:97 or 98? by FuturePastNow · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Having a question mark at the beginning is a little odd

    Maybe it's in Spanish...

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  3. Re:I have always been curious by FLEB · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yet he's on Slashdot...

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