![]() ![]() This cipher was sent to the offices of the San Francisco Chronicle in in 1969. But the second, the 340 Cipher, named after its 340 characters, was trickier to figure out - until this week, almost 50 years later, when an unlikely team of cryptographers broke the code. The still-unnamed murderer sent a series of four coded messages to local newspaper outlets, bragging about his crimes and containing cryptic icons, which earned him the moniker “Zodiac”. The Zodiac serial killer is believed to have murdered at least five people - and likely more - in and around the Northern California area in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ![]() ![]() And while the name of the elusive serial killer remains hidden, the breakthrough represents a triumph for cryptology and the basic building blocks of cybersecurity - access control and segmentation. A remote team of three hobbyist cryptologists have solved one of the Zodiac Killer’s cipher after a half century. ![]()
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