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Jim Sanborn is an artist, this is his content page.

They swear they haven’t peeked at the closely guarded secret and that they’ll keep the cryptographic competition going.

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A curious anomaly in Kryptos K4: splitting at “W” reveals two perfectly balanced letter frequency groups. Coincidence—or a deliberate hidden structure

Artist Jim Sanborn ’69 is the man behind one of the world’s most famous unsolved codes, a sculpture named “Kryptos” at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va.

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There is a hidden word in the Kryptos ciphertext K2, which can be obtained using all the X! Is it real or a coincidence?

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A coded puzzle embedded in a sculpture outside the CIA headquarters has been stumping cryptologists for more than 30 years until, in the lead-up to the puzzle's solution being sold at auction this yea...

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Sold for $770,000 | Jim Sanborn's original Kryptos archive that reveals the secrets of K4 and the much anticipated K5, plus an afternoon with Sanborn as he p

Jim Sanborn's original Kryptos archive that reveals the secrets of K4 and the much anticipated K5, plus an afternoon with Sanborn as he p

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After 35 years, the secretive CIA sculpture finally gave up its mystery, thanks to a novelist, a playwright, and some misplaced documents. But the chase to decode continues.

If you've been following the Kryptos story, you've probably seen headlines claiming the famous CIA sculpture's K4 passage has been "solved."

Uncovering the CIA’s Kryptos puzzle took three parts math and one part sleuthing

An answer to a puzzle that cryptologists and CIA agents have failed to solve for 35 years was unexpectedly uncovered by novelist Jarett Kobek and playwright Richard Byrne.

In November, I will have been publishing in newspapers and on websites for 40 years. But rarely have I been the subject of news coverage. That changed last Thursday when the New York Times published ...

Jim Sanborn's original Kryptos archive that reveals the secrets of K4 and the much anticipated K5, plus an afternoon with Sanborn as he personall

Auction Title: Decoding History: Kryptos, Enigma, and the Rosetta Stone (#730)

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An Initial Bid Must Be Placed By November 20 6:00 PM EDT To Participate After 06:00 PM EDT

An Initial Bid Must Be Placed By November 20 6:00 PM EDT To Participate After 06:00 PM EDT

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