The Zodiac Ciphers – What do we know, and when do we stop trying to solve them?

Here is a video of my talk from the 2015 Cryptologic History Symposium held at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab: I had limited time for the talk, so I recorded a new bonus section at the end to…

Crypto Symposium slides

Conference goers, thanks for attending my talk. Here are the slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx2ZxPLdifaodG42enNZNmRCRXM/view?usp=sharing (slideshare link) I will work to post a video of the talk soon. So far the conference is filled with many interesting topics. Here’s the agenda if anyone’s…

Zodiac Pattern Drawer

UPDATE, Feb 7, 2016: The Zodiac Pattern Drawer site at sbabaker.com went down, so I attempted to mirror the tool here: http://zodiackillerciphers.com/zodiac-pattern-drawer/ Computer science professor Ryan Garlick at the University of North Texas has been enlisting his students to try…

Speaking at the 2015 Cryptologic History Symposium

The Cryptologic History Symposium sponsored by the NSA’s Center for Cryptologic History is coming up this fall, and they have accepted a paper proposal I recently submitted. The symposium will be on October 22nd and 23rd this year in Laurel,…

Did a chess grandmaster solve the 340?

The World Chess Federation in Las Vegas, NV is involved in a dispute over trademark infringement. The web site for the World Chess Federation has a profile of its founder Stan Vaughan which includes this claim: Grand Master Stan’s expertise…