Another Hint For Kryptos 50
rastos1 writes Four years ago Jim Sanborn, the sculptor who created the wavy metal pane called Kryptos that sits in front of the CIA in Langley revealed a clue for breaking the last remaining part of the encrypted message on Kryptos. The clue was: BERLIN.
But the puzzle resisted all all decryption efforts and is still unsolved.
To honor the 25th anniversary of the Wall's demise and the artist's 69th birthday this year, Sanborn has decided to reveal a new clue to help solve his iconic and enigmatic artwork. It's only the second hint he's released since the sculpture was unveiled in 1990 and may finally help unlock the fourth and final section of the encrypted sculpture, which frustrated sleuths have been struggling to crack for more than two decades. The next word in the sequence is: "clock."
Clock -- Time is running out! (Score:2)
The artist is 69...
I hope he wrote the solution in his will because at this rate the encryption will outlive him.
Actually maybe I don't. It would be also amusing to have a cypher-sculpture in front of CIA headquarters that never gets solved.
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The artist is 69... I hope he wrote the solution in his will because at this rate the encryption will outlive him.
Actually maybe I don't. It would be also amusing to have a cypher-sculpture in front of CIA headquarters that never gets solved.
Perhaps they have solved it, but want to keep that info to themselves?
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"Sanborn also confirmed that should he die before the entire sculpture becomes deciphered, there will be someone able to confirm the solution."
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Damn. I was hoping he was going to say that the solution was written down but the piece of acid-free archival paper had been cut into segments, placed in acid-free envelopes, in turn placed in argon-filled boxes, which in turn were buried at secret locations, with the GPS coordinates for each segment written in encrypted format in the will.
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Even better, the coordinates should be encrypted on Kryptos. Now THAT would be meta.
Re: Did you say cock? (Score:1)
God doesn't even exist, you brainless fucktard.
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I am a girl, you insensitive clod.
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Girls don't exist online either!
G.I.R.L. = Guy In Real Life
Re:Why bother? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Try pointing out the positive aspects. You also sound negative. You;d rather point out the negative aspects of another's comments than explain what gives you joy.
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The first fucking sentence was the positive aspect.
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It doesn't give me joy. Which would be why I'm not working on it. That doesn't mean someone else won't find it rewarding and hence positive.
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That's it? Seriously that''s not enough for many people.
That's why many people aren't working on it.
But for people who do enjoy that kind of thing, it sure beats watching TV or hanging out at a bar.
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There are lots of pressing problems.
Cyphers, as opposed to codes, have well-defined functions (be it an algorithm or a lookup table) which map the input to the output. The same functions are applied in the same way across the entire input. Unless the functions are such that the output is truly indistinguishable from a random oracle (or, indeed, any other Oracle product), information is exposed, both information about the message and information about the method for producing the cyphertext. Since randomness
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If you can do that, then you know how complex you can make your cypher for a competition page, and how simple you can afford it when building a TrueCrypt replacement.
Come on, there's an arbitrary number of formulas that could be used to encode the next bit. If you look at a sequence 1 3 5 7 and ask what's the next number most people would answer 9. Then the answer is "11, because it's the odd numbers excluding squares like 3*3 = 9" and people would go "How the f*ck should I know that?" and there's no analytic function that says how "weird" your formula is. You're just making a guess of how long it'd take before someone tries a formula like this, it could be in five minu
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Come on, there's an arbitrary number of formulas that could be used to encode the next bit. If you look at a sequence 1 3 5 7 and ask what's the next number most people would answer 9. Then the answer is "11, because it's the odd numbers excluding squares like 3*3 = 9" and people would go "How the f*ck should I know that?" and there's no analytic function that says how "weird" your formula is. You're just making a guess of how long it'd take before someone tries a formula like this, it could be in five minutes or fifty years.
No, people would then ask "Why is 1 in the list then since 1*1 = 1?"
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"in berlin the doomsday clock is forgotten on this day"
it's something like that.
"Don't forget... (Score:5, Funny)
...to drink your Ovaltine".
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Be sure to drink your Ovaltine. FTFY
1st Letter formula? (Score:2)
1st letter -= length * 2;
Using the ASCII table as a reference http://www.ascii-code.com/ [ascii-code.com]:
NYPVTT berlin
N - (6 * 2) = B
MZFPK clock
M - (5 * 2) = C
I'am probably miles off, but, gave me something to do for 10 minutes.
Mu guess (Score:2)
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine
$5 wrench (Score:1)
They are looking at this puzzle the wrong way - the $5 wrench attack would get them some fast results!
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Obligatory link.
http://xkcd.com/538/ [xkcd.com]
I doubt it's "Berlin Clock" in context (Score:1)
Excavatory cryptanalysis? (Score:2)
Has anyone taken a shovel to the coordinates in part 2?
Then the answer is obvious (Score:2)
Then clearly we're dealing with a "Berlin clock sucker". :P :P :P
Wild guess(?) (Score:2)
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