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Elonka Dunin is a game developer and amateur cryptographer. She is an expert on the famous Kryptos sculpture/cipher at the CIA's headquarters.
Career information
Dunin is currently working at Simutronics Corporation in game development.
She wrote The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles.
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, Dunin 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.
Dunin speaks several languages, and has traveled to every continent including Antarctica.
She is great-great-grandniece of Saint Raphael Kalinowski.
Cryptographic accomplishments
In 2000, Dunin 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.
Dunin has taught 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 websites on Kryptos , and the World's Most Famous Unsolved Codes .
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)
References
- Wired News, January 26, 2005.online copy
- St. Louis Post Dispatch, October 8, 2003, archived copy.
- Woman's World magazine, March 16, 2004, archived copy
Elonka 16:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)