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FLASH: Kryptos developments create geekly tizzy
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 		FLASH: Kryptos developments create geekly tizzy
The KRYPTOS sculpture at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, has been a challenge to amateur and professional cryptographers the world over for many years, since it's installation by the artist James Sanborn in 1990. It is a large sculpture covered with encrypted texts using multiple encryption methods and layers, and has never been fully solved. In 1999, the first three layers of encryption were publicly cracked by a computer scientist from California named Jim Gillogly, who later went on to achieve limited fame in the ARG world by saving our collective asses in Lockjaw (under the appropriate codename "Scryer") and cracking a code that had stumped the players for some weeks. Elonka Dunin has previously mentioned the sculpture here on a couple of occasions.

No progress had been made on a final solution to the sculpture since 1999, though not for lack of trying. But that may now change. According to Wired.com, Mr. Sanborn was recently reviewing his plaintext against the encrypted text included on the sculpture and found that an artistic decision he had made had created a grossly misleading transcription error when decoding the text. Needless to say, this news has caused much excitement among the community that has formed around this problem.

The Wired article is an interesting read, and for more information you can check out Elonka's Kryptos page and her announcement regarding this latest development.
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 		Here I was getting all excited - but the correction merely corrects a portion of one of the sections that was thought to have been solved. The real excitement is the hope that the corrected text might lead to a key for the fourth (completely unsolved) section.
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