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by elahieh 308 days 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 changed from "chairman of A cryptographic center" to "chairman of [THE] CIA's cryptographic center" when it doesn't even seem that it has such a center.

And the featured story (around 52:00 of the video) has him apparently claiming credit for helping solve a Caesar cipher!

https://web.archive.org/web/19990501000000*/http://www.tecse...