Kryptos - very interesting

[k***@checkmysig.com]

Story about a sculpture in front of CIA cafeteria window that includes
coded messages. Apparently only 3 of the 4 messages have been deciphered.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66334,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2

http://www.odci.gov/cia/information/tour/krypt.html

http://www.odci.gov/cia/information/tour/kryptos_code.html

[James Gifford]

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Story about a sculpture in front of CIA cafeteria window that includes
coded messages. Apparently only 3 of the 4 messages have been
deciphered.

Snip therefrom:

***
It's been nearly 15 years since Sanborn installed the 12-foot-high,
verdigrised copper, granite and wood sculpture inscribed with four
encrypted messages at the CIA's Langley, Virginia, headquarters in 1990.
And it's been seven years since anyone made progress at cracking its
code.

But publication of the novel The Da Vinci Code has renewed interest in
solving the puzzle because author Dan Brown made two veiled references to
Kryptos on his book's dust jacket. Brown's publisher sponsored a contest
around the references, and Brown has hinted that his next book, which
takes place in Washington, D.C., may feature the sculpture in some way.
***

Oh, great. It will be about how the CIA (Central Intelligence
Association) embedded the true meaning of Christmas (which is actually
the Easter Bunny's wedding anniversary) into the sculpture, which will
also prove to be the final resting place of (alien invader) Jimmy Hoffa.

Oh, damn, I foreshadowed too much!

[Stephen Fels]

Post by k***@checkmysig.com
Story about a sculpture in front of CIA cafeteria window that includes
coded messages. Apparently only 3 of the 4 messages have been deciphered.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66334,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
http://www.odci.gov/cia/information/tour/krypt.html
http://www.odci.gov/cia/information/tour/kryptos_code.html

Well, looking at the 4th set, I notice first, that most of it is simply the
alphabet, with the letters KRONOS pulled out and preceding each repetition.
This leaves the few letters in the upper left, that are missing KRONOS /and/
in jumbled order...

I've got it! It says "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine".

[Greg Johnson]

Post by Stephen Fels

Post by k***@checkmysig.com
Story about a sculpture in front of CIA cafeteria window that includes
coded messages. Apparently only 3 of the 4 messages have been deciphered.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66334,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
http://www.odci.gov/cia/information/tour/krypt.html
http://www.odci.gov/cia/information/tour/kryptos_code.html

Well, looking at the 4th set, I notice first, that most of it is simply the
alphabet, with the letters KRONOS pulled out and preceding each repetition.
This leaves the few letters in the upper left, that are missing KRONOS /and/
in jumbled order...
I've got it! It says "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine".

The sets on the right do not directly contain a message, but the
arrangement of letters in them serves as a notice that there is stuff
encoded using some version of the Vingenere cipher, because that's how
you rearrange your alphabet when you start manually encoding. I
recognised it immediately, even though I'd only seen it used once before
(In the book "Have His Carcase" by Dorothy L Sayers, which includes a
suitable-for-Ginger explanation of how it works), since it's fairly
distinctive.

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Post by k***@checkmysig.com
Story about a sculpture in front of CIA cafeteria window that includes
coded messages. Apparently only 3 of the 4 messages have been
deciphered.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66334,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
http://www.odci.gov/cia/information/tour/krypt.html
http://www.odci.gov/cia/information/tour/kryptos_code.html

How do we know that the forth one actually is a code? Maybe it is just
the result of lots of coin flipping.

Xho

[Jerry Bauer]

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How do we know that the forth one actually is a code?

It doesn't look like forth code.

Perhaps APL, if anything.

[E.I.]

Post by Jerry Bauer

Post by x***@gmail.com
How do we know that the forth one actually is a code?

It doesn't look like forth code.
Perhaps APL, if anything.

mmm, APL !