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July 11, 2012 05:05 pm

Contest To Crack William Gibson Poem Agrippa


An anonymous reader writes "A new cracking contest to cryptanalyse a William Gibson poem. The electronic poem ('Agrippa') was written back in 1992 and self-encrypts after being displayed once. The person who successfully cracks the encryption will win a copy of every published Gibson book."The poem/program binary was recovered in 2008, but it looks like no one has managed (bothered?) to crack the code.

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