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I just read an article in "The Register" stating with authority that the code has been completely and recently broken by a combination of "crowd source" investigators, and a newly advanced software, plus two high-powered cryptographers who were sharing the credit with everyone involved over decades. Said there was one final uncracked code and not two as this Article states,so I wonder how out-of-date this Article is.
2603:8081:3A00:30DF:8ACF:679C:8748:31DA (talk) 00:30, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I believe I'm reading the article you're referring to, the one uploaded yesterday? It refers to the second cypher which was cracked in 2020 (the 2nd out of 4). The article was written because the people who cracked the cypher published a paper on how they did it. I'm not seeing an authoritative statement saying a final uncracked code was cracked, maybe it was in an original version of the article and they edited it out. https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/zodiac_killer_code/Atubofsilverware (talk) 03:13, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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