This is about the Kryptos cypher, it should be in the submission's title, cause people here know what it is mostly.
And frankly a Kryptos solution is much more interesting than some arbitrary CIA secret!
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#12Recent and related:
The secret code behind the CIA's Kryptos puzzle is up for sale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907366 - Aug 2025 (53 comments)
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#13This is about the Kryptos cypher, it should be in the submission's title, cause people here know what it is mostly.
Thanks, we've put the HMTL doc title up there now.
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#14"side-channel attack" and it was super effective!
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#15As I see it it's a lesson about finding out things in the real world. It's even a little poetic that the people finding the solution are a pair of investigative journalists, digging up information that was technically already out there, rather than a puzzle solving cryptologist "breaking down the front door of the problem" so to say. Kobek may actually have pulled that off once before, by the way. I'm pretty sure tha…
> “This is a problem everybody has been attacking as a STEM problem,” Mr. Kobek said in an interview, referring to the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics that underlie cryptography. Cryptographic science, he argued, could not solve Kryptos — “but library science could.”
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He's 79 and covered by Medicare.
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"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."