Thinking Sideways: Kryptos

Shattered Souls

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🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

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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1:54.2	Maybe possibly a secret to a hidden treasure? Well, we really don't know.
1:58.7	Or maybe something?
1:59.9	Or something?
2:00.6	Or maybe nothing?
2:01.6	Yeah, maybe, maybe just a note or something like that. I don't know. We'll find out at the end.
2:07.0	Yeah, so first of all, let me say what we're talking about here. We're talking about
2:10.8	none other than Cryptos. And you probably heard about that. That's a sculpture at the CIA
2:15.2	in Langley, Virginia. Yep.
2:17.0	Yeah, Cryptos. And you think?
2:18.2	Big thing.
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