Kryptos sleuths may finally get some help cracking the CIA sculpture that has confounded amateur and professional cryptographers for two decades. Artist Jim Sanborn, who created the cipher ...

In 1989, the year the Berlin Wall began to fall, American artist Jim Sanborn was busy working on his Kryptos sculpture, a cryptographic puzzle wrapped in a riddle that he created for the CIA's ...

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 ...

Learn more about the CIA’s uncrackable code in the latest episode of Great Big Story, a new podcast from CNN about the delightful, surprising stories all around us. In the middle of CIA ...

That's probably how it feels to be the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employees who regularly pass by the infamous Kryptos sculpture in the courtyard of the bureau's headquarters in Langley ...

Inscribed on Kryptos, a sculpture erected on the intelligence ... Only Sanborn and former CIA director William Webster have the solution to the encrypted message, which Sanborn developed with ...

The significance of the initial question-mark character -- as a beginning or a spacer -- is hotly debated by Kryptos sleuths. For 15 years, a bronze sculpture in the CIA's courtyard has taunted ...

Kryptos is an encrypted sculpture installed at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. It's a set of huge copper plates with enciphered text carved into them—for example, one segment reads ...

Dive into the enigma of Kryptos, a CIA sculpture hiding an unsolved code, and meet Elonka Dunin, a dedicated cryptanalyst working to crack it. Theaters issuing warning to fans heading to see ...

Like something from a Dan Brown novel, Kryptos is a cryptographic puzzle at CIA headquarters that has never been solved. The sculpture is 12 feet high, and stands on the grounds of the CIA complex ...

Kryptos sits in a courtyard outside the CIA headquarters. A curvy, copper screen measuring 12 feet tall and 20 feet wide, the sculpture is packed with letters. “I cut with jigsaws, by hand ...