Unlocking Agrippa

In 1992, William Gibson published Agrippa,  a poem coded on a floppy disk such that after one reading it would destroy itself forever. Quinn DuPont, a PhD student studying cryptography, built an emulation of the self-destructing poem and has a challenge to cyberpunks and cryptographers: be the first person to crack the poem’s code and win a copy of every one of Gibson’s books ever published.

is an intern for The Millions. He is currently studying English and Russian at Columbia University.