Thursday, 11 July 2013

The NSA cracked the Kryptos sculpture years before the CIA

The Kryptos Sculpture

It took more than eight years for a CIA analyst and a California computer scientist to crack three of the four coded messages on the CIA's famed Kryptos sculpture in the late '90s.


Little did either of them know that a small group of cryptanalysts inside the NSA had beat them to it, and deciphered the same three sections of Kryptos years earlier -- and they did it in less than a month, according to new documents obtained from the NSA.


By: Kim Zetter,


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/11/nsa-solved-kryptos

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