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Documents Reveal How the NSA Cracked the Kryptos Sculpture Years Before the CIA

Kim Zetter, 2013. Wired, 10 July 2013.

Describes NSA documents released under a FOIA request by Elonka Dunin showing that an NSA team had solved K1 to K3 by June 1993, after a 1992 challenge from CIA Deputy Director Bill Studeman.

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Zetter, K. (2013). Documents Reveal How the NSA Cracked the Kryptos Sculpture Years Before the CIA. Wired, 10 July 2013. https://www.wired.com/2013/07/nsa-cracked-kryptos-before-cia/
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