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Ossifrage ('bone-breaker', from Latin) is an older name for the bearded vulture, a scavenger famous for dropping animal bones and live tortoises on top of rocks to crack them open. The 1993–94 effort began the tradition of using the words "squeamish ossifrage" in cryptanalytic challenges.
When decrypted using the factorization the message was revealed to be "The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage". In 2015, RSA-129 was factored in about one day, with the CADO-NFS open source implementation of number field sieve, using a commercial cloud computing service for about $30.
The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage: Solved in 1993–1994 1983 Decipher: Solved [1] 1986 Decipher II: Partially solved (all 4 ciphertexts solved between 1985 and 1986, but the solution to the 4th ciphertext has since been lost) [2] 1987 Decipher III: Unsolved [2] 1990 Kryptos: Partially solved (3 out of the 4 ciphertexts solved between ...
Squeamish Ossifrage 14:40, 10 March 2015 (UTC) Further review of InterBasket leads me to believe that even its non-forum content does not constitute a reliable source. Squeamish Ossifrage 19:04, 10 March 2015 (UTC) It just can't be reliable - it's a blog post on a forum.
Squeamish Ossifrage 15:30, 14 August 2015 (UTC) Thank you very much for the review and support.--Wehwalt 22:48, 17 August 2015 (UTC) Glad to have been of assistance. I look forward to seeing Vonnegut's article with a bronze star. Squeamish Ossifrage 14:35, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
Squeamish Ossifrage 02:35, 23 September 2015 (UTC) Reference #41 is not properly formatted. This is now reference #40, but is not improved. Squeamish Ossifrage 02:35, 23 September 2015 (UTC) Mann et al. has an ISBN. Also, the authors here are formatted differently than they are elsewhere (first last versus last, first).
Squeamish Ossifrage 17:36, 27 September 2013 (UTC) I have fixed this with a reputable book reference now. Farrtj 17:43, 27 September 2013 (UTC) Probably more if you dig harder, that was a pretty cursory search. Squeamish Ossifrage 16:34, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
Squeamish Ossifrage 16:35, 20 August 2015 (UTC) Many thanks for the comprehensive review. I will work my way through, and will ask you to have a second look when I'm done. --Jens Lallensack 10:40, 23 August 2015 (UTC) Hi Squeamish Ossifrage, many thanks again, your review has greatly improved the article! I have addressed everything now.