NOTACON 3: Kryptos and The Da Vinci Code

Speaker: Elonka Dunin

In a courtyard at CIA Headquarters stands an encrypted sculpture called Kryptos. Its thousands of characters contain encoded messages, three of which have been solved. The fourth part, 97 or 98 characters at the very bottom, have withstood cryptanalysis for over a decade. The artist who created Kryptos, James Sanborn, has also created other encrypted sculptures such as the decade-old Cyrillic Projector, which was cracked in 2003 by an international team led by Elonka Dunin. Within the last few years, the sculpture's fame has been increasing, in large part because references to it were hidden in the bookjacket of the bestseller "The Da Vinci Code", and author Dan Brown has hinted that it will also feature in his next book, "The Solomon Key". This talk is intended for a general audience with beginning to intermediate cryptographic experience. Elonka will go over how the Cyrillic Projector code was cracked, and the current state of knowledge about the Kryptos sculpture, its own encrypted messages, and its mysterious CIA surroundings.

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