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Contest To Crack William Gibson Poem Agrippa

Posted by Unknown on from the brought-to-you-by-lisp dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new cracking contest to cryptanalyse a William Gibson poem. The electronic poem ('Agrippa') was written back in 1992 and self-encrypts after being displayed once. The person who successfully cracks the encryption will win a copy of every published Gibson book." The poem/program binary was recovered in 2008, but it looks like no one has managed (bothered?) to crack the code.

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  1. Re:Not encrypted by zamboni1138 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A large portion of the disc (exactly 8,000 contiguous bytes) has been rewritten with only four different bytes: 0x41, 0x43, 0x47, 0x54.

    Aren't those hex for ASCII characters A, C, G and T? Isn't that the same four characters that are used in DNA sequences?