Reviving My First Love

I know it has been a very loooooong time since I posted here and I even have not posted much before taking a break.

I've been busy hatching other blogs that I seem to have left this without warning.

I didn't mean to. Crypting has been one of my hobbies. It's my first love among hobbies, so to speak. I've created several but since I don't use them much, I've forgotten most of them. Only the handful "good" ones are still intact. "Good" as in they are not easy to decipher under untrained eyes but easy enough for the trained eyes that you can just read through the code to get the message and you don't have to write what you decipher so others can see what you're writing, otherwise the code is useless. What if the person who just glanced upon what you wrote down as the message is a double-crosser? Ahh...too much espionage, I guess. :D

Anyway, I just would like to let you know I'll be back to regularly post in this blog. I'm just thinking of something that can breathe life into it. :)

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The Story Behind CIA's "Kryptos"

Look what I've found out...

Located in the northwest corner of the New Headquarters Building courtyard is a sculpture by artist James Sanborn entitled "Kryptos." Dedicated on November 3, 1990, the theme of this sculpture is "intelligence gathering." "Kryptos" incorporates native American materials such as wood and metal. A piece of petrified wood supports a large S-shaped copper screen that looks like a piece of paper coming out of a computer printer. On the "paper" are inscribed several enigmatic messages, each written in a different code. The sculpture continues to be a source of pleasure and mystery for Agency employees with a few employees taking the challenge to "break the code."

Cool...