Unveiled in November 1990, Kryptos has baffled cryptographers for almost three decades, with two of its five messages still unbroken, and a promise of further mysteries after the last message is decrypted. What’s the final answer to Kryptos? Nobody even knows the question yet.
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Coverage of the initial deciphering
A new clue
Elonka’s Kryptos page
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In 1999 Ricky McCormick was killed on the side of a freeway, 12 years later the FBI finally asks the public for help in decrypting a cypher found in his pants pocket. Ricky wrote them and to this day no one is really sure what them mean.
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Mysterious Writings
The FBI asks for help
Wikia
Crime Scene Investigators
Awesome Cypher explanation
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A man is found dead on the coast of Australia, of unknown causes with a mysterious code in a hidden pocket, causing an international, six decade long search for his identity, and for someone who can break the code.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Wikipedia
Now I Know
New break in the case?