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BOSTON (AP) — When Jim Sanborn was commissioned to create a sculpture at CIA headquarters, he wanted to do something that spoke to its world of spies and secret codes. The result was a 10-foot-tall, S ...

Kryptos sleuths may finally get some help cracking the CIA sculpture that has confounded amateur and professional cryptographers for two decades. Artist Jim Sanborn, who created the cipher sculpture ...

For 35 years, amateur sleuths and cryptographers have been playing a game with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). They’ve attempted to decipher the four messages hidden in a sculpture dubbed ...

Jarett Kobek was a “Kryptos” fan. Not one of the die-hards, working for decades to crack the final passage of the famous encoded sculpture at CIA headquarters — but in a dark period after the death of ...

BOSTON (AP) — The information needed to decipher the last remaining unsolved secret message embedded within a sculpture at CIA headquarters in Virginia sold at auction for nearly $1 million, the ...

The KRYPTOS Society was established in 1981 to “promote interest in cryptoanalysis” and “excellence in the cryptologic community.” It had 250 members in 2005, has local chapters in second-party spy ...

Learn more about the CIA’s uncrackable code in the latest episode of Great Big Story, a new podcast from CNN about the delightful, surprising stories all around us. In the middle of CIA headquarters, ...

Buy a Rolls-Royce Wraith that's part of the limited Kryptos Collection, and you'll get your very own secret message search game, put there by the maker. Only the CEO and chief designer of Rolls-Royce ...