From today's NY Times article by John Schwartz titled "A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault"

"Cryptographic science, he argued, could not solve Kryptos — 'but library science could.'"

#LibraryScience FTW!

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/science/kryptos-cia-solution-sanborn-auction.html

35 years ago, Jim Sanborn presented the cryptographic sculpture Kryptos to the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia. Made from copper, granite, quartz and petrified wood, it has four sections, each of which holds a message in code. Over the years, three of the sections have been solved — by CIA code breakers, a California computer scientist, and the National Security Agency. Now, 79-year-old Sanborn says he's going to auction off the solution to the final message, with the company arranging the sale estimating a winning bid between $300,000 and $500,000. Here's @newyorktimes's story on why he's doing it now, and what he hopes the winning bidder will do with the secret.

https://flip.it/_TN3II

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