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> She also revealed today that there was a fifth level of encryption on the coin which no one had broken yet. Now, how believable is that?
by teddyh 4y ago
> She also revealed today that there was a fifth level of encryption on the coin which no one had broken yet.
Now, how believable is that?
- scrlk 4y agoReminds me of the Kryptos sculpture installed at CIA HQ - the last passage still hasn't been solved yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos
- killingtime74 4y agoMaybe there is no solution they just trying to mess with us
- krisoft 4y agoI completely believe that she said that. It is mostly believable that there is a fifth level. It is likely that they haven't received a correct solution at the time of the announcement yet. Which part are you doubting?
- McDyver 4y ago"And believe it or not, a boy, 14 years old in Tasmania, was the first person in just over an hour to get *all four* layers right." Cue Maxwell Smart: "would you believe 5 layers?"
- teddyh 4y agoI doubted the fact that there really was a fifth level. It seems like exactly what someone would make up on the spot in an embarrasing situation like this.
- jgrahamc 4y agohttps://blog.jgc.org/2011/12/back-channel-confirms-that-im-right.html https://blog.jgc.org/2011/12/back-channel-confirms-that-im-r...
- sen 4y agoThe fifth level was a binary puzzle hidden in the colouration of the writing. Darker/lighter letters were 1's and 0's. The second part of the 5th level was that the other ring of writing had 3 "colours", which were the dots, dashes, and spaces in a morse code string. The only reason the fifth level was "hidden" was that there wasn't obvious hints/clues pointing to it like the first 4, where each specifically hinted at how to solve the next.