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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Info to decipher secret message in Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters sells for close to $1M

Encrypted Code Auction - (“Kryptos” © Copyright 1988 James Sanborn. All rights reserved)

The information needed to decipher the last remaining unsolved secret message embedded within a sculpture at CIA headquarters in Virginia sold at auction for nearly $1 million, the auction house announced Friday.

The winner will get a private meeting with the 80-year-old artist to go over the codes and charts in hopes of continuing what he's been doing for decades: interacting with would-be cryptanalyst sleuths.

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