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Arts
fromWIRED
1 week ago

Inside the Messy, Accidental Kryptos Reveal

The Kryptos sculpture's long-unsolved plaintext was exposed after Sanborn inadvertently deposited readable text at the Smithsonian, enabling others to photograph and obtain the solution.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week ago

How the CIA's Kryptos Sculpture Gave Up Its Final Secret

The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the CIA headquarters, just took a bizarre twist. Though cryptographers broke the first three passages in the 1990s, just a few years after artist Jim Sanborn erected the copper monolith, the fourth, known as K4, remained a 97-character fortressthat is, until September 2, when journalists Jarett Kobek and Richard Byrne discovered the answer in the Smithsonian archives.
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fromWIRED
2 months ago

The Kryptos Key Is Going Up for Sale

James Sanborn is auctioning the secret message of Kryptos' final panel, K4, along with a cutting sample, to aid financial concerns and disability programs.
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