A San Francisco company paid nearly $1 million for the solution to an unsolved code in Kryptos, a sculpture on the C.I.A.

They swear they haven’t peeked at the closely guarded secret and that they’ll keep the cryptographic competition going.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Kryptos' by James Sanborn, is one of the three sculptures at the George Bush Center for Intelligence grounds. It runs a theme of ...

Sleuths seeking to solve the Kryptos puzzle often scour interviews with artist Jim Sanborn for clues about the cryptic sculpture, which is located at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence ...

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 ...