For more than three decades, a copper statue outside CIA headquarters at Langley has quietly driven codebreakers up the wall. According to a recent feature in Wired, a crypto-focused venture capital firm has effectively become the official keeper of the last unsolved secret of that sculpture, and the people involved say they haven’t even looked at the answer themselves.
If you’ve ever gone down the rabbit hole of the internet researching unsolved codes, you’ve likely heard of Kryptos. Here's what's going on, and why it's a bigger deal than it sounds.
