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Apparently a mistake exists in Part 2 of the sculpture so it's plausible that there's more. From the Wikipedia article: > There are also a few incorrect letter
by davekeck 12y ago
Apparently a mistake exists in Part 2 of the sculpture so it's plausible that there's more. From the Wikipedia article:
> There are also a few incorrect letters in the ciphertext which Sanborn has said were intentional, and a few letters near the beginning of the bottom half have been displaced from their normal positions, apparently intentionally... One of the lines of the tableau is one character too long, which Sanborn has indicated was accidental.
It's tough to imagine how to start such a problem when you can't even rely on the ciphertext being correct.
- couchand 12y agoUnless, of course, those are clues? From the FAQ on Elonka's page: Q: Why are words misspelled in Parts 1 and 2? Is that a mistake? No. Sanborn has said that those two errors -- iqlusion and undergruund -- are deliberate, but he didn't say exactly why. He did say that it wasn't what they were that was so important, as their orientation or positioning. If there's something critical about their positioning, and given that the coordinates are for a location in the same courtyard as the sculpture, it seems reasonable that one would need more than just the ciphertext to solve it.
- smackfu 12y agoIf beating cryptanalysis just requires messing up a few letters, seems like a valid thing to do.
- pmorici 12y ago"It's tough to imagine how to start such a problem when you can't even rely on the ciphertext being correct." That's a common problem in the real world. A lot of ciphertext, at least historically, comes from radio signals and if your receiver doesn't get a good copy of the signal you've got what you've got.