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'''Elonka Dunin''' ({{pron-en|ɨˈlɒŋkə ˈdʌnɨn}}; born December 29, 1958) is an American game developer<ref name="nyt"/> at [[Simutronics Corp.]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], where she has worked since 1990. She is Chairperson Emerita and one of the founders of the [[International Game Developers Association]]'s [[Online Games]] group, has contributed or been editor in chief on multiple [[IGDA]] State of the Industry [[White paper#Commercial white papers|white paper]]s,<!-- see the 2004 paper, she's listed as editor in chief --> and is one of the Directors of the [[Global Game Jam]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://casualconnect.org/news/gloge-and-dunin-join-global-game-jam-management-team/|title=Gloge and Dunin join Global Game Jam management team|date=August 15, 2011|accessdate=August 17, 2011|author=Vakhrusheva, Yulia|publisher=Casual Connect}}</ref>

Dunin has published a book of exercises on [[classical cryptography]], and maintains cryptography-related websites about topics such as ''[[Kryptos]]'', a sculpture at the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] containing an encrypted message,<ref name=warrioress>{{cite news|url=http://expressnightout.com/content/photos/2006-05-19-kryptos.pdf|title=Code Warrioress - she's cracking the D.C. area's biggest secret|date=May 19, 2006|accessdate=August 13, 2011|author=Hallett, Vicky|work=[[Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref name="nyt">{{citenews|title=A Break for Code Breakers on a C.I.A. Mystery |author=Chang, Kenneth|date=April 22, 2006|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE5DA153FF931A15757C0A9609C8B63}}</ref><ref>{{Citenews|title=London Lawyers Turn Into Code-Breakers|publisher=''[[The Washington Post]]''|date=April 27, 2006|url= http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/27/AR2006042701765.html |first=Derek | last=Kravitz | accessdate=May 1, 2010}}</ref><ref name=NPR>[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5356012 "Enigmatic CIA Puzzle ''Kryptos'' May Be Flawed"] [[NPR]] All Things Considered, April 21, 2006</ref> and another on the world's most famous unsolved codes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html|publisher=elonka.com|title=Elonka's list of famous unsolved codes|accessdate=August 13, 2011}}</ref> She has given several lectures on the subject of cryptography,<ref name=nsa>{{cite web|url=http://kryptos.yak.net/50|title=NSA Cryptologic History Symposium in 2005 |publisher=kryptos.yak.net|accessdate=2008-11-13}}</ref><ref name=defcon>[http://althing.cs.dartmouth.edu/secref/resources/defcon12/dc-12-speakers.html#dunin Defcon 12: Kryptos and the Cracking of the Cyrillic Projector Cipher]</ref> and according to the [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] series ''[[NOVA scienceNOW]]'' she is "generally considered the leading ''Kryptos'' expert in the world."<ref name="PBS">{{cite news|url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/video/3411/q03-220.html |publisher=''[[NOVA scienceNOW]]''|date=July 2007|title=''Kryptos''|accessdate=October 13, 2007}}</ref> In 2010, bestselling author [[Dan Brown]] named a character, Nola Kaye, in his novel ''[[The Lost Symbol]]'' after her.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine/October-2011/What-Its-Like-to-be-a-Cryptographer/|date=October 2011|accessdate=September 16, 2011|work=[[St. Louis Magazine]]|title=What It's Like to Be a Cryptographer|author=Kerman, Byron}}</ref>

==Early life, education and early career==
Elonka Dunin was born in [[Santa Monica, California]], the older of two children to Stanley Dunin, a [[Polish-American]] [[mathematician]], and [[Elsie Ivancich Dunin|Elsie Ivancich]], a [[Croatian-American]] dance [[ethnologist]] at [[UCLA]].<ref name=autobiography/>

Dunin graduated in 1976 from [[University High School (Los Angeles, California)|University High School]], studied astronomy at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] for roughly one year,<ref name=autobiography>{{cite web|url=http://elonka.com/autobiography.html|title=Elonka Dunin - Autobiography|date=February 21, 2006|accessdate=January 5, 2009|author=Dunin, Elonka}}</ref> and then joined the [[United States Air Force]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elonka.com/articles/tommarello.html|title=Tommarello Interview with Elonka Dunin|publisher=elonka.com|accessdate=November 13, 2008|quote=Elonka does not have a college degree, but has a wide breadth of practical experience to draw upon. After dropping out of college, she spent six years in the Air Force as an Avionics Instruments System Specialist.}}</ref> working as an [[avionics]] technician at [[RAF Mildenhall]] in the United Kingdom and [[Beale Air Force Base]] in California.<ref name=stccbr/>

==Online games==
In the 1980s, she became involved with the growing [[Bulletin board system|BBS]] culture. In 1989, while working as a temporary legal secretary in [[Los Angeles]], this interest overlapped into the early [[multiplayer]] games, such as ''[[British Legends]]'' on [[CompuServe]] and [[Simutronics]]' ''[[GemStone II]]'' on [[GEnie]].<ref name=RiverfrontTimes>{{cite news| url =http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2002-06-19/news_full.html| title = When Dragons Escape| accessdate = February 7, 2007| author = Batz, Jeannette| date = June 19, 2002| publisher = ''[[Riverfront Times]]''}}</ref>

In 1990, Dunin moved to [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]] and began working for the online game company [[Simutronics]].<ref name=stccbr>{{cite news | title=Elonka Dunin's ability to crack codes is stuff books are made of | work=St. Charles County Business Record | date= August 28, 2006 | author=Stage, Wm.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Games People Play |work=St. Charles Journal|date=January 9, 1994|author=McCrary, William S.}}</ref> Simutronics launched its own website, play.net, in 1997 with Dunin as General Manager of Online Games,<ref>{{cite news |title=Trends: Nice Work If You Can Master It |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|first=Jennifer |last=Pendleton |page=6 |date=August 18, 1997}}</ref> managing Simutronics' online community.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kim, Amy Jo|title=Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities|year= 2000|publisher=Peachpit Press|isbn=0-201-87484-9|authorlink= Amy Jo Kim}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Pure Internet play. Simutronics' online games. |journal=[[Inc. (magazine)|Inc]] |first=Nancy K |last=Austin |authorlink=Nancy Austin|volume=21 |issue=15|pages=75 |date=October 19, 1999}}</ref> Dunin was the product manager for ''[[GemStone III]]'', executive producer for the ''[[Hercules (TV show)|Hercules]]'' and ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]''-based multiplayer game ''Alliance of Heroes'', and worked in a variety of production and development roles on most of Simutronics' other products, including ''[[CyberStrike 2|CyberStrike]]'', ''Modus Operandi'', ''[[DragonRealms]]'', [[HeroEngine]], ''Fantasy University'', and ''Tiny Heroes''. She is a founding member of the [[International Game Developers Association]]'s [[Online game|Online Games]] [[Special Interest Group|SIG]] and edited four of their annual White Papers on various aspects of the online game industry, such as "Web and Downloadable Games" and "Persistent Worlds."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://igda.org/online/IGDA_WebDL_Whitepaper_2004.pdf|format=PDF|title=Web and Downloadable Games White Paper|publisher=IGDA|year=2004|accessdate=February 24, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://igda.org/online/IGDA_PSW_Whitepaper_2004.pdf|format=PDF|title=Persistent Worlds White Paper|publisher=IGDA|year=2004|accessdate=February 24, 2009}}</ref>

===Games===
Dunin has held a variety of production and development roles during her 20 years at Simutronics. Games that she has worked on include:
* ''[[GemStone III]]''
* ''[[GemStone IV]]''
* ''[[DragonRealms]]''
* ''[[CyberStrike]]''
* ''[[CyberStrike 2]]''
* ''Alliance of Heroes'' (originally ''Hercules & Xena: Alliance of Heroes'')
* ''Modus Operandi''
* ''Orb Wars''
* ''Fantasy University''
* ''Tiny Heroes''

==Cryptography==
[[File:Elonka Dunin.jpg|right|in St. Louis, 2006|180px|thumb]]
Dunin has written books and articles about [[cryptography]], and been interviewed on radio and television about related subjects such as ''[[Kryptos]]'', the [[Smithy Code]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Countdown with Keith Olbermann for April 28|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12578325/|date=May 1, 2006|accessdate=August 13, 2011|publisher=[[MSNBC]]}}</ref> and [[Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.kplr11.com/news/ktvi-cracking-code-could-help-solve-st-charles-murder-case-20110330,0,7253504.story|title=FBI seeks help cracking cold case code|author=Jaco, Charles|authorlink=Charles Jaco|publisher=[[KPLR]]|date=March 30, 2011|accessdate=August 13, 2011}}</ref> In an interview with GIGnews.com, Dunin said that in the year 2000 she cracked the [[PhreakNIC]] v3.0 Code, an amateur cryptographic puzzle created by a [[Hacker (computer security)|hacker group]], and that this launched her public interest in high-profile ciphers.<ref name="GIGnews">{{cite web|url=http://www.gignews.com/goddess/dunin.htm |title=A Chat with Elonka Dunin |work=GIGnews.com |first=Melanie |last=Cambron|month=May |year=2002 |accessdate=October 31, 2008}}</ref><ref name="pn6">[http://phreaknic.info/pn6/schedule.html PhreakNIC 6 schedule]</ref> Because of the location of ''Kryptos'' on [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] grounds, physical access to the sculpture is restricted. According to ''[[Wired News]]'', in 2002, Dunin gave a presentation to CIA analysts about [[steganography]] and [[Al-Qaeda]], and "[i]n 2002, Dunin was one of the lucky few who saw [Kryptos] in person", and "she also made [[rubbing]]s of the text".<ref name="wired05">{{cite news|url=http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/01/66334 |title=Solving the Enigma of Kryptos|publisher=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired.com]] |first=Kim |last=Zetter |date=January 21, 2005 |accessdate=October 31, 2008}}</ref> Based on her visit, she launched the beginnings of what became a comprehensive website about the sculpture,<ref name="nyt"/><ref name=wired06>{{cite news|title=Typo Confounds Kryptos Sleuths|author=Zetter, Kim|date=April 20, 2006|publisher=[[Wired News]]. CondéNet, Inc.|url=http://wired.com./science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70701|authorlink=Kim Zetter}}</ref> and also became co-moderator of a [[Yahoo Group]] that is attempting to decipher the encrypted messages on the sculpture.<ref name=CNN>{{cite news | url = http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/19/cracking.the.code/index.html | title = Cracking the code| accessdate = February 8, 2007 | author = Redman, Justine | coauthors = Ensor, David| date = June 20, 2005 | publisher = [[CNN]]}}</ref><!-- "e-mail group" according to NYT -->
In 2003, Dunin organized a team which solved the ciphers on ''Kryptos'''s sister sculpture, the ''[[Cyrillic Projector]]''.<ref name=stccbr/><ref name="Science Now">{{cite journal|url=http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2003/1007/3|title=Cryptic Sculpture Cracked |journal=[[Science Now]]|first=Charles |last=Seife |date=October 7, 2003|archiveurl=http://elonka.com/kryptos/mirrors/ScienceMagazine.html|archivedate=2004-03-11}}</ref><ref name="Science">[http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol302/issue5643/r-samples.dtl Cyrillic Riddle Solved] ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'', vol 302, 10 October 2003, page 224</ref><ref name="Post-Dispatch">{{cite news|url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/92251953766AB8FE86256DBA00139A45?OpenDocument |title=Woman sets sights on code on CIA sculpture |work=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |first=Eli |last=Kintisch|date=2003-10-08|archiveurl=http://www.elonka.com/mirrors/STL/sights.html |archivedate=2004-03-11}}</ref>

When ''Kryptos'' sculptor Jim Sanborn chose to release information about an error on the sculpture in 2006, he contacted Dunin to make the announcement.<ref name="nyt"/><ref name=wired06/> In July 2007, Dunin appeared on the [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] program ''[[NOVA scienceNOW]]'', as an expert on ''Kryptos'', and in 2009, contributed two articles about the sculpture for the book ''Secrets of The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel''.<ref name=secrets>{{cite book|url=http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Lost-Symbol-Unauthorized-Mysteries/dp/0061964956#reader_0061964956|accessdate=2009-12-30|title=Secrets of the Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel|editors=Daniel Burstein & Arne de Keijzer (editors)|author=Dunin, Elonka|authorlink=Elonka Dunin|publisher=[[Harper Collins]]|year=2009|isbn=9780061964954|chapter=Kryptos: The Unsolved Enigma|pages=319&ndash;326}}</ref> a companion book to author [[Dan Brown]]'s novel ''[[The Lost Symbol]]''. Dunin had assisted Brown with the research for the novel, and Brown named a character in the novel after her. The character "Nola Kaye" is an anagrammed form of "Elonka".<ref name=secrets/><ref>{{cite book|title=Illustrated Guide to the Lost Symbol|page=161|editor=John Weber (ed.)|author=Taylor, Greg|isbn=9781416523666|date=2009|chapter=Decoding ''Kryptos''|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Rough Guide to the Lost Symbol|page=35|author=Haag, Michael|isbn=9781848360099|year=2009|publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]]}}</ref>

In 2006, Dunin compiled a book of several hundred exercises in [[classical cryptography]], which was published in the United States as ''The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms'', and in the UK as ''The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles''. The book also includes a few details about several unsolved codes, such as ''Kryptos''.<ref name=wired06/>

==Public speaking==
Dunin has given talks on ''Kryptos'' and the ''Cyrillic Projector'' at the [[National Security Agency]]'s NSA Cryptologic History Symposium,<ref name=nsa/> [[Def Con]],<ref name=defcon/> [[Shmoocon]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shmoocon.org/2006/presentations.html|title=ShmooCon |publisher=www.shmoocon.org|accessdate=November 13, 2008|archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080629051156/http://www.shmoocon.org/2006/presentations.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = June 29, 2008}}</ref> [[Notacon]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.notacon.org/archive/2006/speakers.html|title=NOTACON |publisher=www.notacon.org|accessdate=November 13, 2008}}</ref> [[PhreakNIC]],<ref name="pn6"/> and [[Dragon*Con]], and has also given lectures at the [[Game Developers Conference|International Game Developers Conference]].<ref name="dragoncon">{{cite web|url=http://www.dragoncon.org/people/dunine.html |title=Dragon*Con Biography: Elonka Dunin |work=Dragoncon.org |year=2000|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20010308165958/http://www.dragoncon.org/people/dunine.html |archivedate=2001-03-08}}</ref><ref name="cmpevents">{{cite web |url=https://www.cmpevents.com/GD08/a.asp?option=G&V=3&id=92209 |title=Game Developers Conference 2008 Speakers: Elonka Dunin |work=CMPEvents.com |accessdate=October 31, 2008}}</ref> She has been invited to be a co-host on the [[Binary Revolution]] webcast three times.<ref name="binrev">[http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.php Episodes #78, #99 and #156], ''Binary Revolution'', interviews by David Blake.</ref> In October 2012, she will be [[Guest of Honor]] at [[Archon (convention)|Archon]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archonstl.org/36/|title=Archon 36|accessdate=August 21, 2011|publisher=[[Archon (convention)]]}}</ref>

==Books and articles==
* (editor) IGDA Online Games White Paper, 2002. [http://igda.org/online/IGDA_Online_Games_Whitepaper_2002.pdf PDF]
* (editor) IGDA Online Games White Paper, 2003. [http://www.igda.org/online/IGDA_Online_Games_Whitepaper_2003.pdf PDF]
* (editor) IGDA Web & Downloadable Games White Paper, 2004. [http://igda.org/online/IGDA_WebDL_Whitepaper_2004.pdf PDF]
* (editor-in-chief) IGDA Persistent Worlds White Paper, 2004. [http://igda.org/online/IGDA_PSW_Whitepaper_2004.pdf PDF]
*{{cite book |title=The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms |publisher=Carroll & Graf |location=New York, United States|author=Dunin, Elonka |month=April | year=2006 |isbn=0-7867-1726-2}}
*{{cite book |title=The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles |publisher=Constable & Robinson |location=London, United Kingdom|author=Dunin, Elonka |month=April | year=2006 |isbn=1-84529-325-8}}
* {{cite book|title=Secrets of the Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel|editors=Daniel Burstein & Arne de Keijzer (editors)|author=Dunin, Elonka|publisher=[[Harper Collins]]|year=2009|isbn=9780061964954|chapter=Kryptos: The Unsolved Enigma|pages=319&ndash;326}}
*{{cite book|title=Secrets of the Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel|editors=Daniel Burstein & Arne de Keijzer (editors)|author=Dunin, Elonka|publisher=[[Harper Collins]]|year=2009|isbn=9780061964954|chapter=Art, Encryption, and the Preservation of Secrets: An interview with Jim Sanborn|pages=294&ndash;300}}

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.elonka.com Elonka Dunin's website]
* [http://www.unfiction.com/compendium/2003/01/02/on-pixels-and-puzzles-and-pi/ January 2003 Unfiction interview with Elonka Dunin]

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Revision as of 21:36, 8 October 2011

Elonka Dunin
Elonka Dunin, 2006
Born (1958-12-29) December 29, 1958 (age 65)
Santa Monica, California
OccupationVideo game developer
Websitewww.elonka.com

Elonka Dunin (Template:Pron-en; born December 29, 1958) is an American game developer[1] at Simutronics Corp. in St. Louis, Missouri, where she has worked since 1990. She is Chairperson Emerita and one of the founders of the International Game Developers Association's Online Games group, has contributed or been editor in chief on multiple IGDA State of the Industry white papers, and is one of the Directors of the Global Game Jam.[2]

Dunin has published a book of exercises on classical cryptography, and maintains cryptography-related websites about topics such as Kryptos, a sculpture at the Central Intelligence Agency containing an encrypted message,[3][1][4][5] and another on the world's most famous unsolved codes.[6] She has given several lectures on the subject of cryptography,[7][8] and according to the PBS series NOVA scienceNOW she is "generally considered the leading Kryptos expert in the world."[9] In 2010, bestselling author Dan Brown named a character, Nola Kaye, in his novel The Lost Symbol after her.[10]

Early life, education and early career

Elonka Dunin was born in Santa Monica, California, the older of two children to Stanley Dunin, a Polish-American mathematician, and Elsie Ivancich, a Croatian-American dance ethnologist at UCLA.[11]

Dunin graduated in 1976 from University High School, studied astronomy at UCLA for roughly one year,[11] and then joined the United States Air Force,[12] working as an avionics technician at RAF Mildenhall in the United Kingdom and Beale Air Force Base in California.[13]

Online games

In the 1980s, she became involved with the growing BBS culture. In 1989, while working as a temporary legal secretary in Los Angeles, this interest overlapped into the early multiplayer games, such as British Legends on CompuServe and Simutronics' GemStone II on GEnie.[14]

In 1990, Dunin moved to St. Louis and began working for the online game company Simutronics.[13][15] Simutronics launched its own website, play.net, in 1997 with Dunin as General Manager of Online Games,[16] managing Simutronics' online community.[17][18] Dunin was the product manager for GemStone III, executive producer for the Hercules and Xena: Warrior Princess-based multiplayer game Alliance of Heroes, and worked in a variety of production and development roles on most of Simutronics' other products, including CyberStrike, Modus Operandi, DragonRealms, HeroEngine, Fantasy University, and Tiny Heroes. She is a founding member of the International Game Developers Association's Online Games SIG and edited four of their annual White Papers on various aspects of the online game industry, such as "Web and Downloadable Games" and "Persistent Worlds."[19][20]

Games

Dunin has held a variety of production and development roles during her 20 years at Simutronics. Games that she has worked on include:

Cryptography

in St. Louis, 2006

Dunin has written books and articles about cryptography, and been interviewed on radio and television about related subjects such as Kryptos, the Smithy Code,[21] and Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes.[22] In an interview with GIGnews.com, Dunin said that in the year 2000 she cracked the PhreakNIC v3.0 Code, an amateur cryptographic puzzle created by a hacker group, and that this launched her public interest in high-profile ciphers.[23][24] Because of the location of Kryptos on CIA grounds, physical access to the sculpture is restricted. According to Wired News, in 2002, Dunin gave a presentation to CIA analysts about steganography and Al-Qaeda, and "[i]n 2002, Dunin was one of the lucky few who saw [Kryptos] in person", and "she also made rubbings of the text".[25] Based on her visit, she launched the beginnings of what became a comprehensive website about the sculpture,[1][26] and also became co-moderator of a Yahoo Group that is attempting to decipher the encrypted messages on the sculpture.[27] In 2003, Dunin organized a team which solved the ciphers on Kryptos's sister sculpture, the Cyrillic Projector.[13][28][29][30]

When Kryptos sculptor Jim Sanborn chose to release information about an error on the sculpture in 2006, he contacted Dunin to make the announcement.[1][26] In July 2007, Dunin appeared on the PBS program NOVA scienceNOW, as an expert on Kryptos, and in 2009, contributed two articles about the sculpture for the book Secrets of The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel.[31] a companion book to author Dan Brown's novel The Lost Symbol. Dunin had assisted Brown with the research for the novel, and Brown named a character in the novel after her. The character "Nola Kaye" is an anagrammed form of "Elonka".[31][32][33]

In 2006, Dunin compiled a book of several hundred exercises in classical cryptography, which was published in the United States as The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms, and in the UK as The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles. The book also includes a few details about several unsolved codes, such as Kryptos.[26]

Public speaking

Dunin has given talks on Kryptos and the Cyrillic Projector at the National Security Agency's NSA Cryptologic History Symposium,[7] Def Con,[8] Shmoocon,[34] Notacon,[35] PhreakNIC,[24] and Dragon*Con, and has also given lectures at the International Game Developers Conference.[36][37] She has been invited to be a co-host on the Binary Revolution webcast three times.[38] In October 2012, she will be Guest of Honor at Archon.[39]

Books and articles

  • (editor) IGDA Online Games White Paper, 2002. PDF
  • (editor) IGDA Online Games White Paper, 2003. PDF
  • (editor) IGDA Web & Downloadable Games White Paper, 2004. PDF
  • (editor-in-chief) IGDA Persistent Worlds White Paper, 2004. PDF
  • Dunin, Elonka (2006). The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms. New York, United States: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-1726-2. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Dunin, Elonka (2006). The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles. London, United Kingdom: Constable & Robinson. ISBN 1-84529-325-8. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Dunin, Elonka (2009). "Kryptos: The Unsolved Enigma". Secrets of the Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel. Harper Collins. pp. 319–326. ISBN 9780061964954. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
  • Dunin, Elonka (2009). "Art, Encryption, and the Preservation of Secrets: An interview with Jim Sanborn". Secrets of the Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel. Harper Collins. pp. 294–300. ISBN 9780061964954. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)

References

  1. ^ a b c d Chang, Kenneth (April 22, 2006). "A Break for Code Breakers on a C.I.A. Mystery". The New York Times. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ Vakhrusheva, Yulia (August 15, 2011). "Gloge and Dunin join Global Game Jam management team". Casual Connect. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
  3. ^ Hallett, Vicky (May 19, 2006). "Code Warrioress - she's cracking the D.C. area's biggest secret" (PDF). Washington Post. Retrieved August 13, 2011.
  4. ^ Kravitz, Derek (April 27, 2006). "London Lawyers Turn Into Code-Breakers". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 1, 2010. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ "Enigmatic CIA Puzzle Kryptos May Be Flawed" NPR All Things Considered, April 21, 2006
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