ATTN: CREATOR OF ENIGMA BOINC SOURCE CODE

In brief: About 20 years ago, a man murdered more than 30 people, one at a time, in creative and horrific ways. He narrowly escaped arrest, and has never been identified or found. He did radio interviews, and sent 2 encoded letters about himself to newspapers... Only the first was ever cracked. The second, he claimed, contains information about himself.

The code is written in shapes and symbols, and is 1 page long. That's all we know about it.

Can you do what the American FBI and the police could not?

Let me know.

Geekoncall@juno.com

See, we should use it for stuff like this, too!

Let's crack the Zodiac Cipher.

All of the Zodiac ciphers have been cracked. With the exception of My name is-- AEN?XKXMXTNAM where ? = his signature, X = an x in a circle, and the T is upside down.

As any cryptanalyst will tell you, including this project, the shorter the message the harder it is to crack.

You can read the letters at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer_letters

But you'll learn at least three things, he couldn't spell, he was crazy, and he probably did a lot of drugs.

Although it would be fascinating to crack codes like that, this project isn't designated for that kind of code - just Enigma, and we have over 200 million workunits to crunch - I suspect that if we asked around, though, we could get somebody to set up a project to crack this kind of code. In fact, I'll ask around the UBT forum tomorrow...

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