The puzzle’s designer, James Sanborn, has urged the solution’s buyer not to reveal it, but to keep it safe until the Smithsonian releases its own copy. Puzzlers, enigmatologists, and even professional ...

Some of the best brains in code-breaking, including cryptographers in the CIA and the National Security Agency and thousands of amateur sleuths worldwide, have been given fresh hope that they may ...

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 ...

Delve into the enigma of Kryptos, a mysterious sculpture at the heart of the CIA headquarters, challenging code-breakers for ...

For 15 years, a bronze sculpture in the CIA's courtyard has taunted amateur and professional code-breakers alike. Kryptos is a copper wall that features four long coded passages. Cryptographers from ...

Can you make out “Berlin Clock”? Photo by Jim Sanborn. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Reprinted from This article originally appeared in Wired. In 1989, the year the Berlin Wall began to fall, ...

On July 30, 2007, artist James Sanborn, mastermind behind the still-partly-unsolved Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, answered selected questions about Kryptos, including ...

CISA GETS SCORED, TO TUNE OF $20M — Implementing the Cyber Information Sharing Act of 2014 would cost $20 million over five years, the Congressional Budget Office said yesterday. The nonpartisan ...