Top 10 World’s Uncracked Codes

That’s Kryptos [wiki], a sculpture by James Sanborn on the grounds of the CIA headquarter in Langley, Virginia. The sculpture is a code, which is unsolved for over 27 years.

Kryptos has four encrypted passages, three of which had been cracked (in 1998, CIA cryptoanalyst David Stein cracked the code using only paper and pencil!)

Supposedly, Kryptos is the subject of Dan Brown’s (of The da Vinci Code fame) next book.

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November 28, 2007 at 4:36 pm by Alex
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7 comments to "Top 10 World’s Uncracked Codes"

kid icarus
November 28th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
what about the may day conspiracy? or the 13 crystal skulls? sigh…..so many things to figure out, but no skills in cryptology to do so……
Lemons
November 28th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
To be honest, Linear A isn’t really a code.
Chris
November 28th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
all those crypto guys, they crack me up.
Matt
November 28th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Interesting thing is that the Kryptos code had some typos in the sculpting process.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70701
Pat J
November 29th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
According to that Wikipedia page, Kryptos was dedicated in 1990, which would make it 17 years old, not 27.

And really, Lemons, all language is a code, isn’t it? A way of encoding thoughts into speech?
Aran G
November 30th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Dan Brown already wrote a book revolving around crypto-analysis and code breaking called “Digital Fortress”…..
Orjans Morjan
November 30th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
World’s ancient mysteries and they have a sculpture from 1990?

I thought I would have at least 40 years before someone called me ancient.

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