Famous Unsolved Codes: Updates on Kryptos and the Voynich Manuscript – Elonka Dunin – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonka_Dunin
Personal story about Sept 11th and how someone was late for work and did not die. Kryptos is a CIA sculpture that she could not get into the CIA complex and see. FBI = Food and Beverage Industry to terrorists. Started giving talk about stenography and eventually was able to get into CIA via undercover agent from CIA. No emails at cia.gov and ended up getting email from ucia.gov!
Webpage about Kryptos. She was able to get rubbings and see/get things that others did not. Was able to meet creator of sculpture. Now it is a major part of her life. Made a list of famous unsolved codes(has large list on her site).
Cracking early crypto work from 1400’s (maby, could be just old paper) said to lead someone to treasure. (Voynich) Drawings different and part of the encryption? Different plants. Swimming ladies throughout the strip, water pouring in different places. “Plumbers Nightmare.” Passion flower. Machine readable text converted to manuscript.
May be a complete fake designed to get money. This ‘magic’ book is worth something to you rich emperor guy! Buy it! A castle from old Italy.
Hoax! Cardan Grille. Might be this, might be that.
Questions, Questions, Questions.
Copiale Cipher – 18th Century Manuscript – Cracked with software. Reporters thinking it is the Voynich Manuscript. Silly Reporters.
Back to Kryptos:
Made in 1990. CIA wanted art for building. Wanted to do sculptor that had encryption. Two years to carve letters in by hand. Letters are huge. 6 per letter size paper. Part 4 is 97 characters. FOIA NSA request about Kryptos. Search for documents have been completed but you are in queue. Much many reviews in process. 6 months, 5 months, final approval, more months, final approval stages. Eventually she is supposed to get this information.
Jim Glogly solved some in 1999. CIA David Stein. The first three parts simple codes. NWICX or NWICS google search for intel community. Team in 2007, skype encryption, running on other stuff, and report regarding kryptos.
Started making list of everything that has been created by the Kryptos artist. Russian language. KGB classified document. First sculpture with text lead to more text/crypto art. Technically two crypto sculptures. CIA and KGB…classified document is plaintext of KGB on other sculpture. Another sculpture with russian classified document on it. “Untitled”
Kryptos, Untitled…Vigenere Table, Palimpsest (old message showing through).
Other closely related works made by him.
Cyrillic Projector – The extra bolt…more puzzles.
Scheidt Hint:
He did things to mask the english in part 4. Cannot be solved through weighting of english language. Part 4 is in english and uses all of the letters. NYPVTT == BERLIN. Robert Mattson from SAIC tried cracking it. Much many words can be generated. Kryptos installed 1988-1990…Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
Many theories.
American Da Vinci Code has Kryptos stuff on it. He should be selling a model.