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A cryptic puzzle known as the Kryptos, located outside the CIA's headquarters, is testing the world's finest code crackers.
There is at least one secret that remains stubbornly safe in the leak-plagued global superpower. Indeed, the enigma stares the spies of the Central Intelligence Agency in the face each day.
Twenty years after it was unveiled in the main courtyard of the CIA headquarters in the USA, a sculpture of curving copper panels still contains an encrypted message hidden in a bewildering jumble of 1,800 characters.
The final mystery of Kryptos ââ¬â it means hidden in Greek ââ¬â is known as the Everest of codes among the thousands of cryptographers who are obsessed with deciphering it. It has even featured on the cover of The Da Vinci Code, the blockbuster Dan Brown novel.
Three passages were unravelled in 1999. But the fourth and toughest remains defiantly obscure, to the surprise of nobody more than Jim Sanborn, the sculptor who created the enduring puzzle.
And Mr Sanborn, who was an encryption neophyte when he was first commissioned by the CIA, has now offered a clue to Kryptos enthusiasts by divulging six of the 97 letters in that last phrase.
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I loved the book The Da Vinci Code. Very interesting if you've never read it.
There is at least one secret that remains stubbornly safe in the leak-plagued global superpower. Indeed, the enigma stares the spies of the Central Intelligence Agency in the face each day.
Twenty years after it was unveiled in the main courtyard of the CIA headquarters in the USA, a sculpture of curving copper panels still contains an encrypted message hidden in a bewildering jumble of 1,800 characters.
The final mystery of Kryptos ââ¬â it means hidden in Greek ââ¬â is known as the Everest of codes among the thousands of cryptographers who are obsessed with deciphering it. It has even featured on the cover of The Da Vinci Code, the blockbuster Dan Brown novel.
Three passages were unravelled in 1999. But the fourth and toughest remains defiantly obscure, to the surprise of nobody more than Jim Sanborn, the sculptor who created the enduring puzzle.
And Mr Sanborn, who was an encryption neophyte when he was first commissioned by the CIA, has now offered a clue to Kryptos enthusiasts by divulging six of the 97 letters in that last phrase.
Read more
I loved the book The Da Vinci Code. Very interesting if you've never read it.
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