Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist Jim Sanborn poses at his studio in August. - (Craig Hudson/For The Washington Post) Jarett Kobek was a “Kryptos” fan. Not ...

Kryptos' Final Code Remains Unsolved. the CIA Sculpture's Creator Is Auctioning the Solution BOSTON (AP) — When Jim Sanborn was commissioned to create a sculpture at CIA headquarters, he wanted to do ...

An anonymous bidder has won the solution to a 35-year-old puzzle for nearly $1 million. The top-secret code could be used to solve Kryptos, an infamously enigmatic sculpture containing four hidden ...

After 35 years, the secretive CIA sculpture finally gave up its mystery, thanks to a novelist, a playwright, and some misplaced documents. But the chase to decode continues. Jim Sanborn couldn’t ...

The long-sought-after solution to the fourth passage of “Kryptos,” artist Jim Sanborn’s secret-code-bearing sculpture at CIA headquarters, sold at auction Thursday night for a final price of $962,500, ...

When Jim Sanborn was commissioned to create a sculpture at CIA headquarters, he wanted to do something that spoke to its world of spies and secret codes. CIA sculpture creator selling encryption key ...

Jarett Kobek was a “Kryptos” fan. Not one of the die-hards, working for decades to crack the final passage of the famous encoded sculpture at CIA headquarters — but in a dark period after the death of ...