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Kryptos@Home aims to solving one of the most famous, unsolved puzzles - the three-decade old Kryptos!

More precisely, it is a sculpture located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia - at the main entrance to New Headquarters Building (NHB) and in the courtyard between NHB and the Original Headquarters Building (OHB) cafeteria - completed by the American artist James Sanborn, on November 3, 1990.

The Kryptos sculpture comprises four large copper plates, a large vertical S-shaped copper screen resembling a scroll of four encrypted messages, three of which (referred to as K1, K2 and K3) have been solved.

As a community, Kryptos@Home's mission is to crack the elusive K4.

More info to the science and the apps are on the homepage.

Note:
For security reasons account creation is only enabled via the website - it's not possible with the BOINC manager. Installation of a (new) VirtualBox-version is required to run the app.

Kryptos@Home
Start January2021
End Autumn 2021
Status ?
Admin e1profesor
Institution
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Area Cryptography
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64bit Kryptos Plato: Searching for Hill cipher solutions 0.05 (vbox) [Windows/Linux/Mac]
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