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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. CIA mistakes... by Mister+White · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I doubt it, the CIA is *NEVER* wrong. ...wait...

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  2. DMCA protects "cracked" algorithms by MarkByers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The DMCA was designed to protect weak algorithms. If an algorithm is secure you don't need a law to stop people cracking it.

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  3. 4th Part Decrypted! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It says: 'All Your Base Are Belong To Us'

  4. Re:Bad Title by Detritus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In real-life, the intercepts that cryptanalysts work with often have missing or garbled characters.

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