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{{Self-published|date=November 2008}} {{Like-resume|date=November 2008}} {{Infobox Celebrity | name = Elonka Dunin | image = Elonka 6653.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Elonka Dunin, 2006 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1958|12|29}} | birth_place = [[Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]], [[California]] | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = [[Video game developer]] | salary = | networth = | spouse = | children = | website = [http://www.elonka.com www.elonka.com] | footnotes = }} '''Elonka Dunin''' ({{pronEng|ɪˈlɔŋkə 'dʌnɨn}}); (b. 29 December 1958) is a game developer<ref name="nyt"/> at [[Simutronics Corp.]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri]]. She is one of the founders of the [[International Game Developers Association]]'s [[Online Games]] group, and was editor in chief on IGDA State of the Industry [[White paper#Commercial white papers|white papers]].<!-- see the 2004 paper, she's listed as editor in chief --> Dunin has published a book of exercises on [[classical cryptography]] in two editions, and she maintains a web-site on the ''[[Kryptos]]'' sculptural [[cryptogram]], located at the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] headquarters in [[Langley, Virginia|Langley]], [[Virginia]]. Although she practices cryptography as an amateur,<ref name="Science Now"/><ref name=NPR/><ref name="Science"/> she is referred to as a [[cryptanalyst]]<!-- note: cryptographer and cryptologist are synonyms for cryptanalyst; see http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=cryptologist --> in several media reports on the ''[[Kryptos]]'' sculpture.<ref>{{Citenews|title=London Lawyers Turn Into Code-Breakers|publisher=''[[The Washington Post]]''|date=2006-04-27|url= http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/27/AR2006042701765.html}}</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><ref name="nyt">{{citenews|title=A Break for Code Breakers on a C.I.A. Mystery |author=Kenneth Chang||date=2006-04-22|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE5DA153FF931A15757C0A9609C8B63}}</ref> She has given several lectures on the topic,<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 [[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=2007-10-13}}</ref>

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