CIA's 'Kryptos' sculpture, unsolved for 35 years, is up for sale

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• WarOnPrivacy 10 hours ago
  https://archive.md/v2fvj
• WarOnPrivacy 10 hours ago

      The secret of CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ sculpture, unsolved for 35 years,
      is up for sale.
  
      The final 97 characters of the encrypted sculpture at CIA headquarters
      have obsessed code breakers for decades. 
  
      Artist Jim Sanborn will auction off the solution on his 80th birthday.

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  • 0points 8 hours ago
    That's the paywalled SYNOPSIS.

    The article is behind paywall, see parent's link.
• Sniffnoy 10 hours ago
  Looks like the title transformer changed this one to a false statement.
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  • sllabres 9 hours ago
    Yes. The code (of the last unsolved part) will be auctioned off, not the sculpture itself
• t0lo 10 hours ago
  I wish this wasn't the case so much, but I understand why. I just wish it was transferred more reliably to another custodian- even though a charity auction isn't the worst way.
• Dilettante_ 6 hours ago
  Somebody call Martin Shkreli!
• jmclnx 2 hours ago
  Bit of info, non-paywalled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos
• bananapub 8 hours ago
  please fix the title - the solution is for sale, the sculpture is not