Tale of a Would-Be Spy, Buried Treasure, and Uncrackable Code
One night in June 2001, Brian Patrick Regan drove out to Pocahontas State Park in Virginia and walked through the muggy darkness into the woods. The former Air Force sergeant wore a backpack on his bearish 6’5″ frame; a sawed-off shovel handle stuck out of the top as he made his way along soft creek […]
Brian Regan used a complex encryption scheme (left) to describe the locations of documents buried in a state park near Washington, DC (right).
Photo: Henrik Knudsen
Photo: Henrik Knudsen