The other two hints-“clock” and “Berlin,” released in 20, respectively-sit back-to-back at positions 64 through 69 and 70 through 74.
The one-word hint-a decryption of letters 26 through 34-is the third and final clue Sanborn is willing to offer.
Now, reports John Schwartz for the New York Times, sculptor Jim Sanborn has released a new clue to the 97-character passage: “Northeast.” Though three of its passages were successfully decoded in the 1990s, Kryptos’ fourth and final section has proven harder to solve than originally anticipated. Inscribed on Kryptos, a sculpture erected on the intelligence agency’s grounds in 1991, the code consists of 865 letters and four question marks punched into a curved wall of copper. Jim Sanborn via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0Ī puzzle that codebreakers have yet to crack sits just outside of the CIA’s cafeteria in Langley, Virginia. Kryptos, displayed in a courtyard of the CIA’s Langley, Virginia, headquarters, has long puzzled codebreakers.
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