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| Born in ] on December 29th, 1958, Elonka studied Astronomy at UCLA, and then joined the United States Air Force. She was stationed at ] in the United Kingdom, and Beale Air Force Base in California, where she worked on the SR-71 and U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. | Born in ] on December 29th, 1958, Elonka studied Astronomy at ] (UCLA), and then joined the ]. She was stationed at ] in the United Kingdom, and ] in California, where she worked on the ] and ] reconnaissance aircraft. | ||
| Elonka speaks several languages, and has traveled all over the world, to every continent including Antarctica. | Elonka speaks several languages, and has traveled all over the world, to every continent including Antarctica. | ||
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Elonka Dunin is a game developer and cryptographer who has solved several high-profile ciphers. She has also been a consultant for the CIA. She is an expert on the famous Kryptos sculpture/cipher at the CIA's headquarters.
Career information
Elonka is currently working at Simutronics Corporation in game development.
She wrote The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles.
She has solved several high-profile ciphers in her spare time.
She is also a founding member of the International Game Developers Association's Online Games SIG.
Biographical information
Born in Santa Monica, California on December 29th, 1958, Elonka studied Astronomy at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and then joined the United States Air Force. She was stationed at RAF Mildenhall in the United Kingdom, and Beale Air Force Base in California, where she worked on the Lockheed SR-71 and Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.
Elonka speaks several languages, and has traveled all over the world, to every continent including Antarctica.
She is great-great-grandniece of Saint Raphael Kalinowski.
Cryptographic accomplishments
In 2000, Elonka was awarded a prize for being the first person to crack the PhreakNIC v3.0 Code, a code puzzle created by the hacker group se2600. She has also solved the PhreakNIC5 Code, the @LANta.con2 Code, and other convention ciphers.
After the events of September 11th, she helped out with the war on terrorism by teaching US government agents about steganography. In 2003 she was invited to speak at CIA Headquarters.
Elonka is co-founder and senior moderator of the Kryptos Group, a collection of several hundred cryptographers and other interested hobbyists who are attempting to crack part 4 of the code on the Kryptos sculpture at CIA Headquarters.
In 2003, she led the international team that cracked the related KGB Cyrillic Projector Cipher.
She maintains popular websites on Kryptos , and the World's Most Famous Unsolved Codes . As of late 2005, her websites have generated over 1.4 million page views.
Bibliography
The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms, US ISBN 0786717262, is scheduled for release in April 2006.
The anticipated UK title of the book is: The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles, UK ISBN 1845293258
Dunin, Elonka (ed.). | "IGDA Online Games White Paper, 2nd Edition - March 2003". (PDF)
External links
- Press information - List of articles and interviews
- The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles
- Elonka's Kryptos website
- Short autobiography
- Longer autobiography (last updated in 2000)
- Elonka's Misplaced Pages User Page
- IGDA Online Games SIG
- Elonka's Famous Unsolved Codes website
- Saint Raphael Kalinowski
- 2003 Announcement of the cracking of the Cyrillic Projector Cipher