Kryptos is a sculpture located at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.1 It was created by Jim Sanborn, a local artist, in 1990. Kryptos bears an encrypted inscription, which has become the most famous crypto puzzle created in the last four decades (see Figure A-1).
Figure A-1: Kryptos, a sculpture located at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, bears a four-part encrypted inscription. The fourth part is still unsolved.
In addition to Kryptos, Sanborn placed other pieces of art on the CIA grounds, such as a number of copper sheets bearing Morse code letters.2 These messages, as well as their decoded counterparts, can be seen in ...
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