Those inspired crazies at Mythbusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, built a giant, working coding cryptex. The device was built for a demo at the RSA Conference, held at the Mascone Center in SF, in April. Now the pair is auctioning it off on eBay. Proceeds from the sale will go to the EFF.
You can watch a video of the demonstration at the conference here (unfortunately, it appears this video no longer exists).
The auction page is here (action is no longer active and has been removed).
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So it looks all messed up
hmm, there should be some clever CRACK pun one could put in somewhere.
The words “Cryptologists do it in secret” sort of smell like security through obscurity. A better phrase would be “Cryptologists could do it in public, but never the same way twice” or “Cryptologists could do it in public, but no one could ape it fast enough”. It would require a bigger cylinder.
“Am I missing an eyebrow?”