CIA's 'Kryptos' sculpture, unsolved for 35 years, is up for sale(washingtonpost.com)

24 pointsby joahua11 months ago10 comments

CIA's 'Kryptos' sculpture, unsolved for 35 years, is up for sale

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/08/14/kryptos-code-k4-solution-jim-sanborn-auction

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    The secret of CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ sculpture, unsolved for 35 years,
    is up for sale.

    The final 97 characters of the encrypted sculpture at CIA headquarters
    have obsessed code breakers for decades. 

    Artist Jim Sanborn will auction off the solution on his 80th birthday.

0points11 months ago

That's the paywalled SYNOPSIS.

The article is behind paywall, see parent's link.

Sniffnoy11 months ago

Looks like the title transformer changed this one to a false statement.

sllabres11 months ago

Yes. The code (of the last unsolved part) will be auctioned off, not the sculpture itself

OhioMan294311 months ago

I wish this wasn't the case so much, but I understand why. I just wish it was transferred more reliably to another custodian- even though a charity auction isn't the worst way.

ChrisArchitect11 months ago

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907366

jmclnx11 months ago

Bit of info, non-paywalled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos

Dilettante_11 months ago

Somebody call Martin Shkreli!

bananapub11 months ago

please fix the title - the solution is for sale, the sculpture is not