Monday, May 11, 2009

Spooks Out-Spooked

In a courtyard inside the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia lies a sculpture. It consists of four half-inch thick sheets of copper inscribed with code. Three of the four codes have been broken. But to this day no one - not even the CIA's most advanced cryptanalysts - has been able to crack the last piece. This fascinating article appeared in Wired last month.