elahieh

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by elahieh 21d ago
Without a third-party check, nope. Case in point, Chaocipher ... https://www.chaocipher.com/ e.g. see "Progress Report #23" the PDF there. Transcription errors galore! This cipher context "rhymes" well w
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by elahieh 21d ago
"Caveats, stated plainly" You should have seen the discussion of this on the Schneier blog a few days ago. Someone had their agent check the solution, presumably it emailed a librarian to check that it was correct for the original
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by elahieh 21d ago
Unfortunately, the totality of the evidence very much indicates that Sanborn went "buck wild" with the enciphering, he made mistake(s), or both. So this is very much in line with the Chaocipher challenge of 1990. Nice little earne
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by elahieh 21d ago
I presume what the author did was plug Klaus Schmeh's top 50 unsolved ciphers at https://scienceblogs.de/klausis-krypto-kolumne/the-top-50-un... into Fable 5.1 and ask Fable 5.1 to have a go. On this kind of probl
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Racing to solve maths problems now 'pointless'(abc.net.au)
6 points by elahieh 24d ago|1 comments
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by elahieh 5mo ago
One reason might be that Claude Opus 4.7 thinking benchmarks better on Arena Coding at https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text/coding ... hopefully that effectively assesses correctness. It doesn't account for reli
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Dola-Seed-2.0-Preview debuts at #6 on arena.ai(seed.bytedance.com)
3 points by elahieh 8mo ago|0 comments
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by elahieh 9mo ago
1990 to 1999, that would be exactly the development timeline of Celerity BBS. Just looking at the revision history of Celerity 2.04 on Discmaster, wow, that went forever! https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/43430&#x2F
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Kryptos K4 summary and final guesses video(youtube.com)
1 points by elahieh 11mo ago|0 comments
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Jim Sanborn open letter to Kryptos community(documentcloud.org)
2 points by elahieh 11mo ago|1 comments
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by elahieh 1y ago
Interview with the Smithsonian researchers here https://zonamotel.substack.com/p/interview-kryptos-k4-uncove...
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Solution to CIA’s Kryptos sculpture is found in Smithsonian vault(nytimes.com)
158 points by elahieh 1y ago|133 comments
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by elahieh 1y ago
A cryptography angle in the article. Would this be illegal in the US under DMCA? One of the biggest compatibility challenges, Vallette said, was finding a way to work with Bosch's mid-drive motors. The communications between a Bosch m
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by elahieh 1y ago
Also, another example of an "unreasonable" challenge - the "Decipher Puzzle" https://cisa.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/468/2017/09/S... -- from 1983 to 1985. You would
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by elahieh 1y ago
Here's what's up for sale from RR Auction https://www.rrauction.com/jim-sanborn-kryptos-k4-solution-au... The Wired piece has Sanborn saying the reserve should be "around $300,000." It sounds like Sanbor
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by elahieh 1y ago
Good point, and it's also entirely possible the code designer just did a terrible job. e.g. around 57:00 of https://youtu.be/JOXPYkjvDaA As Kryptos gots a huge amount of media attention in 1999, references to him chang
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by elahieh 1y ago
I'm inclining to this too. I heard about it first on Usenet in the 90s, and started looking at it again seriously in June 2017 when I came across the Bauer paper. But after the 2020 clues (another 13 letters), it became clear that it w
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The secret code behind the CIA's Kryptos puzzle is up for sale(news.artnet.com)
91 points by elahieh 1y ago|53 comments
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Most e-scooter riders follow the rules(zagdaily.com)
3 points by elahieh 1y ago|0 comments
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by elahieh 2y ago
I'm rather skeptical of this claim that the data was compressed in 2018 because there is no further information, apart from a hash value given. If it's a true claim they must have identified some "non-random" aspect of t
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by elahieh 2y ago
It's certainly perceived that way. "Diff'rent Strokes" "Baseball Blues", 1985... Willis does mention stereo is part of the appeal. - Now, Dad, you gotta picture me cruising along in my Mercedes. Head held high
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by elahieh 2y ago
Yeah, call me snobby or OCD but I lost confidence in the authors and reviewers when I saw that slipped through. Then I started wondering if this is going to become the new anti-AI marker. AI-written papers use "delves", "unde
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by elahieh 2y ago
Section header: "Who's data is it?" Couldn't they have had an LLM proof-read they're paper?
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Bad weather hills and dark deter cyclists, particularly women, what can we do?(theconversation.com)
13 points by elahieh 2y ago|9 comments
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Overcoming barriers for female cyclists: A cross-national bikesharing study(doi.org)
4 points by elahieh 2y ago|1 comments
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by elahieh 3y ago
What a coincidence, I pulled out my S1500M (vintage 2010-10) to do some scanning a few weeks ago (after several years) and found the rubber rollers had melted and become like superglue. Currently reading about how I might try to do an ad-ho
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David Kahn (1930-2024)(echovita.com)
5 points by elahieh 3y ago|0 comments
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by elahieh 3y ago
No - https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter (Nobody even posted "Concerning" yet)
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by elahieh 3y ago
Here's the 2023 paper - https://ecp.ep.liu.se/index.php/histocrypt/article/view/691/... And the 2022 paper on cryptanalysis, the other side of the coin - https://ecp.ep.liu.se/i
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by elahieh 3y ago
Paolo Bonavoglia gave a talk on Venetian cryptography at this year’s Histocrypt, here’s the slide on the timeline Summary of the cryptography of the Republic of Venice ... - 1510 Prehistory : archival vacuum 1510-1578 The Golden age of code

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