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Summary
Elonka Dunin (born December 29th, 1958, in Santa Monica, California) is an amateur cryptographer and an expert on the subject of the Kryptos sculpture at the CIA's headquarters.
Career Information
Elonka is a professional game developer, working as Executive Producer and General Manager of Online Community at Simutronics Corporation.
She is also a founding member of the International Game Developers Association's Online Games SIG.
Biographical Information
Born in Los Angeles, Elonka studied Astronomy at UCLA, and then joined the United States Air Force. She was stationed at RAF Mildenhall from 1978-1981 in the United Kingdom, and Beale Air Force Base in California, where she worked on the SR-71 and U-2 reconnaissance aircraft from 1981-1983.
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, an up-until-Elonka unsolved puzzle created by the hacker group se2600.
After the events of September 11th, she helped out with the war on terrorism by teaching US government agents about steganography. She gave lectures to representatives from the FBI, Secret Service, US Attorney General's office, Postal Inspectors, and Customs Service agents. She also gave a talk in 2003 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 1.3 million page views.
Writing
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
Other Misplaced Pages Articles Which Reference Elonka Dunin
External links
- List of articles and interviews
- The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles
- Kryptos web site
- Short bio
- Longer bio (last updated in 2000)
- Elonka's Misplaced Pages User Page
- IGDA Online Games SIG
- Elonka's Famous Unsolved Codes website