Nobody Has Solved This Cryptographic Puzzle for 30 Years. Think You Can?
- The creator of a well-known CIA cryptographic puzzle has just released a new clue to finally solve it.
- While the sculpture containing all of the scrambled letters is public, no one has cracked the complete code in the three decades it's been standing.
- Part of the reason why this thing hasn't been solved yet is because the guy who created the Kryptos sculpture, as it's called, is an artist—not a cryptographer by trade.
Imagine walking past a 12-foot-tall scroll covered in seemingly nonsensical letters every day for 30 years and wondering just what the hell it actually means. 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, Virginia.
Kryptos, devised by artist Jim Sanborn, has been around for nearly three decades, and yet no one has figured out what the full message says, let alone cracked the underlying riddle. Even the National Security Agency (NSA) could only decrypt part of the code.
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