Jim Sanborn’s inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say they’ve cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3.

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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.

Paradigm is now the steward of the solution to Kryptos, one of the last great cryptography puzzles — but it's a secret, even to us. Now we’re looking for more people to try to find the solution.

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