Typo Found in Kryptos CIA Sculpture 144
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."
Elonka sucks, Ceren for ever! (Score:1, Interesting)
How was this wrong? (Score:1, Interesting)
I would think that if they decoded it properly, the answer they got was correct, regardless of what the intended message was.
If I make a typo and Rot13 it, you can Rot13 it and get my typo back, and it doesn't make you wrong. It means I can't spell.
I haven't RTFA, but the summary makes it look like I can correct others for my own mistakes. Cool!
huh? (Score:5, Interesting)
what are the odds of that?
Publius Enigma (Score:3, Interesting)
Numerous [pinkfloyd-co.com], interesting [angelfire.com] sites are out there, and people have been trying to solve the thing for over 12 years.
Quite interesting, especially if you like the music and want to add a "new dimension".
Douglas Adams (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Elonka sucks, Ceren for ever! (Score:2, Interesting)
-Squirrelmaster out
Re:Is this legal... (Score:2, Interesting)
Bad Title (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Alternate Plaintexts (Score:3, Interesting)
This is actually interesting. (Score:3, Interesting)
I created a 3d replica of the statue in 3d studio max (It should still be available in the yahoo group file section) and this talk of layer 2 talk may imply the folding of the statue. Elonka mentioned this to me a few days ago, but I didn't realize it was this important of an update.
Installing 3d studio max now, there goes my sleep for the next month O.O
Reminds me of the time... (Score:4, Interesting)
The following week in class the teacher announces the correct public & private keys, and most of the class flipped out since they had spent the time trying to figure out why their program wasn't decoding the encrypted assignment. (I guess those students never used a test case to verify that their program _actually_ was working correctly!?)
I guess it pays to pay attention to the expected data.