Archive for the 'cryptography' Category

Famous Uncracked Codes

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Check out this list of codes that are still unsolved. No doubt anyone who breaks one of these will ensure a place in history.

Kryptos is a sculpture by American artist James Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia, in the United States. Since its dedication on November 3, 1990, there has been much speculation about the meaning of the encrypted messages it bears. It continues to provide a diversion for employees of the CIA and other cryptanalysts attempting to decrypt the messages.

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xkcd: Code Talkers

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Code Talkers

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CIA Level Computer Security

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Some useful tools to keep your data away from prying eyes.

Everyone wants to be a badass. Whether you want to admit it or not, if you are a self respecting geek, you want to protect your sensitive information in a way so the CIA can’t even read it. You probably wouldn’t look, considering you live in your basement
and don’t have anything to hide besides that gigantic Mountain Dew Machine and the codes for free Whopper Sandwiches. So I’ve looked for you.

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Enigma simulator in Flash

Monday, September 11th, 2006

This site has a really nice Flash implementation of the German Enigma cipher machine. It does a great job of illustrating conceptually how the internal mechanism worked.

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