Kryptos
Sign in to saveKryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.
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Vinony files it under 1990 establishments in Virginia, 1990 sculptures and Buildings and structures in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Its subject is documented across 26 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Artwork.image
- Kryptos sculptor.jpg
- Artwork.title
- Kryptos
- Artwork.artist
- Jim Sanborn
- Artwork.year
- 1990
- Artwork.dimensions
- ×
- Artwork.museum
- George Bush Center for Intelligence
- Artwork.city
- Langley, Virginia, U.S.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ciphertext
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Langley
- Main subject
- cryptography
- Material used
- quartz
- Creator
- Jim Sanborn
- Image
- Kryptos sculptor.jpg
- Significant event
- opening ceremony
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- inception
- 1990-01-01
- described at URL
- elonka.com/kryptos
- Commons category
- Kryptos
- title
- Kryptos
- date of official opening
- 1990-11-03
- commissioned by
- Central Intelligence Agency
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Description
- Encrypted messages
- Solvers
- Solutions
- Morse code
- Solution of passage{{Nbsp}}1
- Solution of passage{{Nbsp}}2
- Solution of passage{{Nbsp}}3
- Clues given for passage{{Nbsp}}4{{Anchor|Clues given}}
- Auction
- Discovery in the Smithsonian Archives
- Related sculptures
- In popular culture
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Books
- Journal articles
- Conference papers
- Articles
- External links
Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.
Since its dedication on November 3, 1990, there has been much speculation about the meaning of the four encrypted messages it bears. Of these four messages, the first three have been solved, while the fourth message remains one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world. Artist Jim Sanborn has hinted that a fifth coded message will reveal itself after the first four are solved. The sculpture continues to be of interest to cryptanalysts, both amateur and professional, attempting to decode the fourth passage. The artist has so far given four clues to this passage.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kryptos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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