KRYPTOS: A Pacific Northwest Cryptanalysis Contest for Undergraduates
Many students are intrigued by the idea of breaking secret codes. In the spring of 2011, the first KRYPTOS contest debuted and gave 49 undergraduate students from the Pacific Northwest a chance to test their cryptanalytic abilities. The contest consisted of three cipher challenges that students, working as individuals or in teams, tried to solve over a long weekend. In this paper, we describe the details of the contest including the code breaking challenges and their solutions.
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