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

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• WarOnPrivacy 14 hours ago
  https://archive.md/v2fvj
• ChrisArchitect 37 minutes ago
  [dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907366
• WarOnPrivacy 14 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 13 hours ago
    That's the paywalled SYNOPSIS.

    The article is behind paywall, see parent's link.
• Sniffnoy 14 hours ago
  Looks like the title transformer changed this one to a false statement.
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  • sllabres 14 hours ago
    Yes. The code (of the last unsolved part) will be auctioned off, not the sculpture itself
• t0lo 14 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_ 11 hours ago
  Somebody call Martin Shkreli!
• jmclnx 7 hours ago
  Bit of info, non-paywalled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos
• bananapub 12 hours ago
  please fix the title - the solution is for sale, the sculpture is not