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New Project kryptosathome

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:03 am
by UBT-mark3346
"Kryptos@Home is a volunteer computing project which allows anyone on the internet to contribute computing resources to research projects, related to solving one of the most famous, unsolved puzzles - the three-decade old Kryptos!

More precisely, it is a sculpture located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia - at the main entrance to New Headquarters Building (NHB) and in the courtyard between NHB and the Original Headquarters Building (OHB) cafeteria - completed by the American artist James Sanborn, on November 3, 1990.

The Kryptos sculpture comprises four large copper plates, a large vertical S-shaped copper screen resembling a scroll of four encrypted messages, three of which (referred to as K1, K2 and K3) have been solved.

As a community, Kryptos@Home's mission is to crack the elusive K4."

https://www.kryptosathome.com/

Re: New Project kryptosathome

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 2:40 am
by UBT - Timbo
HI Mark

Nice find.... :-)

I've just set up a Team for anyone interested in joining this project and adding credits to the Teams efforts.

https://www.kryptosathome.com/team_disp ... ?teamid=40

regards
Tim

Re: New Project kryptosathome

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:20 am
by UBT - Mikee
Hi

Hmm - can't create account on the site, account creation disabled via BOINC Manager!

Mike

Re: New Project kryptosathome

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:52 pm
by UBT - Timbo
UBT - Mikee wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:20 am Hi

Hmm - can't create account on the site, account creation disabled via BOINC Manager!

Mike
Hi Mike

I went to the website to register an account first, and once that was set up - I added the project to BOINC Manager and then all was well and tasks downloaded.

I had to complete some tasks before I could set up a team, but as mentioned that has now been done.

regards
Tim

Re: New Project kryptosathome

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 2:52 pm
by UBT-mark3346
UBT - Timbo wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:52 pm
UBT - Mikee wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:20 am Hi

Hmm - can't create account on the site, account creation disabled via BOINC Manager!

Mike
Hi Mike

I went to the website to register an account first, and once that was set up - I added the project to BOINC Manager and then all was well and tasks downloaded.

I had to complete some tasks before I could set up a team, but as mentioned that has now been done.

regards
Tim
Same. set up my account on the site then added to BOINC (so far "completed" 1 wu and that was " Error while computing")

Re: New Project kryptosathome

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:06 pm
by UBT - Mikee
Hi

OK - my bad! Had a comma in the email addy :-)

Pity I don't have enough memory to run virtualbox on the lappy!

Mike

Re: New Project kryptosathome

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:17 am
by UBT - Mikee
Hi

Working on the main computer now.

Don't forget the "Do you consent to exporting your data to BOINC statistics aggregation Web sites?" option if you want stats reported.

Mike