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Jim Sanborn

American sculptor who designed and built Kryptos for the CIA's new headquarters building, and who has controlled the release of clues to its unsolved fourth passage ever since.

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  • Ed Scheidt

    Jim Sanborn was influenced by Ed Scheidt — Privately taught Sanborn a range of historical and unconventional encryption techniques over roughly a year of meetings beginning in late 1988, deliberately giving him more systems than the sculpture ultimately used.

Objects & Artifacts

  • Kryptos

    Jim Sanborn authored Kryptos.

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What Is Kryptos, the CIA's Unsolved Sculpture Cipher?

What Kryptos is: the CIA's encrypted sculpture, how its first three passages were cracked, and why K4 is still formally unsolved after 35+ years.