Name: Cracking the Uncrackable Code
Uploaded: 2022-03-17T17:11:02.000Z
Duration: 6 min 22 s
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and one woman who's spent almost two decades trying

In the heart of the CIA headquarters lies a mystery.

but, this one is weird because it's meant to be solved.

It's a sculpture containing an encoded message

If anyone's got a shot, it's Elonka Dunin.

- [Narrator] When Elonka's not solving jigsaw puzzles,

she's cracking codes and she's good at it.

but, you know, that's the kind of thing puzzle people do.

One day, Elonka ran into a code that finally stumped her.

- I first heard about Kryptos, I think, in late 2000.

It is about 12 feet tall and 20 feet long.

It has thousands of characters carved into it.

The fourth has not been solved and it is considered

to be one of the most famous unsolved codes of the world.

Elonka and cryptanalysts around the world

polyalphabetic substitution, transposition,

but, the fourth code only 97 characters long,

It just sits there, right in front of us, unsolved.

who had never created a code before in his entire life,

that has stumped the entire code breaking world?

- [Narrator] Welcome to the island of Jim Sanborn.

and he's the only person on Earth who knows the solution.

- The code itself is in a safe deposit box

So, I chose to do a piece using encoded text.

Through this copper screen, I cut with jigsaws, by hand,

and people have been contacting me continuously, daily,

- [Elonka] We have sushi, we have drinks, we have chips.

- [Jim] There is actually a Kryptos group,

to get me to give them a clue to Kryptos.

- [Elonka] Our Kryptos community is made up

We have thousands of people that are interested in Kryptos

and either cracking it or helping to see it cracked.

Some of them are professional code breakers,

often someone will just come in and toss out an idea

and then, there will be some brainstorming.

Has anything changed in terms of the solutions of Kryptos

to every single thing that Jim might say about Kryptos

because there's that hope that he will drop that clue,

and extremely poker faced when everybody wants

fairly good at making it so that I don't flinch

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