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Typo Found in Kryptos CIA Sculpture

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-big-oops dept.

SimuAndy writes "Elonka Dunin, game developer at Simutronics and author/editor of the new book, 'The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms', reports that what everyone had thought was the answer to part 2 of the CIA's encrypted Kryptos sculpture, wasn't. Sculptor Sanborn announced this week that everyone had gotten it wrong, because of a mistake on the art piece. For more info, check out the Wired story, or the Kryptos Group announcement."

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  1. Sevfg cfbg by MarkByers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sevfg cfbg

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    I'll probably be modded down for this...
  2. Got It! by MudButt · · Score: 4, Funny

    No wonder I couldn't figure it out! Gimme a second... Okay...

    Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

    Aw man!

  3. Hmmm by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 4, Funny

    In an unrelated story Sculptor Sanborn went missing last night...

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  4. CIA now humbly requests... by Linker3000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The CIA has followed up the public announcement that there is a typo in the encrypted message by asking people to stop sending them their old hi-fi speakers for recycling since the decrypted message does *NOT* read "all your bose are belong to us".

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  5. Re:huh? by Tim+Browse · · Score: 4, Funny
    what are the odds of that?

    It's a million to one shot. But as we know, they come up 9 times out of 10.

  6. geeks by identity0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Heh, it just goes to show how obsessed some geeks get. I loved this last part:

    "I've been drinking Mountain Dew and eating Easter Jelly Bellies to sharpen my mind," he says.

    He says the new information was the equivalent of throwing a steak into shark-infested water. "There's going to be a frenzy of action around this for months because it's the first real bit of data we've been able to get. We don't know what it means. But it's very exciting."

    Yeah, sharpening his mind with Jelly Bellies and going into a frenzy because someone added an 'x' to a cyphertext... nope, no dorkyness here...

  7. Giggity! by mojotooth · · Score: 1, Funny
    From the Kryptos Group article:

    The exact method used in K2 is polyalphabetic substitution, known as a "Quagmire III variation" of a Vigenère cipher. The keyed cipheralphabet and plaintext alphabet both use the key of KRYPTOS, and the indicator key is the word ABSCISSA.


    And for some reason, every cipher determined by this method comes out "GIGGITY GIGGITY"
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  8. Slashdot by segfault7375 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot reporting on a typo? Oh the delicious irony! :)

  9. 38 57' 6.5"N, 77 8' 44"W by payndz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey! I put those co-ordinates into Google Earth, and it crashed! Damn CIA spooks will do anything to protect their secrets...

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  10. Typo by wildsurf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cryptographers of the world, untie!

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