Stood outside the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, is a mystery that has eluded the agency's brightest minds for 35 years. A curving metal sculpture, known as Kryptos, was built by the artist ...

They swear they haven’t peeked at the closely guarded secret and that they’ll keep the cryptographic competition going.

Near the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, there is a sculpture known as Kryptos. It has been there since 1990 and contains four secret codes—three of which have been solved. The final one has ...

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 ...

This undated photo provided by the Central Intelligence Agency shows the 1990 dedicated sculpture "Kryptos" by James Sanborn at the Central Intelligence Agency in ...

An unsolved mystery has hidden in plain sight at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia. It has nothing to do with covert spies, double agents or state secrets.

BOSTON(AP) — 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. The result was a 10-foot-tall, ...

BOSTON — 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. The result was a 10-foot-tall, ...