The bronze, curving panel is meant to resemble a sheet of paper coming out of a printer. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons More than three decades ago, artist Jim Sanborn created a mysterious ...

The top secret code behind Kryptos, the infamously enigmatic sculpture with four hidden messages that stands at the CIA headquarters, is hitting the auction block in November. Artist Jim Sanborn’s ...

The Central Intelligence Agency has a puzzle that has gone unsolved for decades. A piece of art with what seems to be random characters and symbols was commissioned as a reflection of the job the CIA ...

'Kryptos' by James Sanborn, is one of the three sculptures at the George Bush Center for Intelligence grounds. It runs a theme of information gathering and includes an encoded copper screen. (Jim ...

Sculptor James Sanborn, creator of "Kryptos"--perhaps the world's most famous piece of cryptographic art--has found that it's not easy keeping a secret for 20 years, particularly one that thousands of ...

Ed Scheidt is former director of the Central Intelligence Agency's Cryptographic Center. Scheidt, who helped artist Jim Sanborn choose cryptographic techniques for his Kryptos sculpture, now works for ...

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 ...

One of the CIA’s most enduring puzzles is about to go under the hammer. Jim Sanborn, creator of the Kryptos sculpture at the agency’s Langley-based headquarters, plans to sell the solution to the ...

‘Kryptos’ has intrigued amateur and professional cryptographers alike. For 35 years, amateur sleuths and cryptographers have been playing a game with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). They've ...