Strange codes that are hard, if not impossible, to break
In June of 1994, a cryptic message was posted to a Usenet board for Pink Floyd fans. What followed has been more than 23 years of investigation into this mysterious puzzle.
Some of Our Research:
Reviewing the problem
Reddit discusses
The Google groups
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Unveiled in November 1990, Kryptos has baffled cryptographers for almost three decades, with two of its five messages still unbroken, and a promise of further mysteries after the last message is decrypted. What’s the final answer to Kryptos? Nobody even knows the question yet.
Some of Our Research:
Coverage of the initial deciphering
A new clue
Elonka’s Kryptos page
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On November 22, 1987 someone overpowered two different TV stations transmissions broadcasting a nearly unintelligible message using the guise of Max Headroom. Who it was, what it meant, and why they did it no one knows for sure.
Some of Our Research:
The wiki
So many theories
The original Reddit post
A transcribed version of the 2nd video
“Not all mysteries are solvable, but prize comes in the pursuit.” Called “the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the internet”, Cicada 3301 is the name given to an organization that posts complex puzzles for public consumption on or around the 5th of January every year. First surfacing in 2012 via a post on 4chan, users were given a month to solve a set of increasingly complex puzzles. Who is behind this group, what is the end goal of the puzzles, and how could anyone solve them?
Some of Our Research:
The story of Cicada 3301
The Cicada Wiki
The Cicada Reddit page
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In the early 1800’s a hotel owner was entrusted with a locked box, when he eventually opened it he found that it contained 3 coded messages. The coded messages were supposedly described the location of a buried treasure. Only one of the cyphers has been broken. The answer to the others, like the treasure itself, has never been found.
Some of our Research:
All about the history
A cryptographers perspective
The treasures been found?