Bernd Adameit

Kryptos - Wikipedia

The Kryptos sculpture by US artist Jim Sanborn was dedicated on November 3, 1990! So, this enigmatic 🧩 and wonderful 🤗 work of art is now officially 35 years old 🎉 and it‘s been quite in the news of late, I‘d say! What will the auction bring? What will come thereafter 🤔 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos

So lovely! 🤗

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Inside the Messy, Accidental Kryptos Reveal After 35 years, the secretive CIA sculpture finally gave up its mystery, thanks to a novelist, a playwright, and some misplaced documents. But the chase to decode continues.

After 35 years, the secretive CIA sculpture finally gave up its mystery, thanks to a novelist, a playwright, and some misplaced documents. But the chase to decode continues.

BTW I do hope that any potential bidder will see the extra value they get, so that the lot will sell at a high price…

Hi friends of Kryptos K4 (and K5!), RR Auction have published an interesting blog entry: content.rrauction.com/kryptos-k4-d...

How the CIA’s Kryptos Sculpture Gave Up Its Final Secret Uncovering the CIA’s Kryptos puzzle took three parts math and one part sleuthing

Here‘s a cool new article about Kryptos 😀 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Beautiful! 😀

INTERVIEW: Kryptos K4 Uncovered- Jarett Kobek and Richard Byrne on discovering the answer to a decades-long mystery An answer to a puzzle that cryptologists and CIA agents have failed to solve for 35 years was unexpectedly uncovered by novelist Jarett Kobek and playwright Richard Byrne.

"As human beings, we build artifice to have such incredible import.... If you put too much weight on it, it can fall on you." (1:08:00)

Jarett Kobek and myself spoke with the amazing literary website Zona Motel about Kryptos. Excerpt and video interview here:

zonamotel.substack.com/p/interview-...

K4 and After In November, I will have been publishing in newspapers and on websites for 40 years. But rarely have I been the subject of news coverage. That changed last Thursday when the New York Times published ...

New on STAGE WRITE: Brief thoughts on the recovery of the Kryptos K4 plaintext, and a great interview with myself and Jarett Kobek about it at Zona Motel.

stage-write.ghost.io/k4-and-after/

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Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Jahrestag! 🎉😀

If Jarett Kobek and Richard Byrne released the plaintext some time after the auction, that would be fine with me. Then one could start reverse-engineering the method, which might be a challenge even if knowing all 97 plaintext characters 😀

The recent plot twists feel like a real-life spy novel 🔍😮

Then, there‘s this: „The winning bidder will be the first to learn what lies beyond K4 and gain exclusive access to the highly anticipated K5.“ 🧩😮

Notable is the inclusion of „the original coding system for K4“

RR Auction have updated and significantly expanded their info: „Lot#2001: The Complete Secrets of Kryptos: Jim Sanborn's Private Archive“ www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot...

(should be a gift link)

Thanks to @elahieh.bsky.social for alerting me to this story!

A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault

This is a stunner for every fan of Kryptos K4: New York Times article by the great @jswatz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

Cool! 😮

So lieb! 🤗

The letter could also be just a simple message along the lines of: „Enjoyed our collaboration very much, love your great work of art, best regards“ 😄

The signed letter by Ed Scheidt could conceivably lay out two or three candidate cryptosystems for K4, perhaps with hints of how to potentially modify them. That would be extremely cool…

Even if the plaintext of K4 were published, reverse-engineering the actual method of K4 might be challenging… 🤔

If a buyer chose to publish the plaintext of K4, then this would be the starting point for taking on the final challenge, the elusive K5. Would be fine with me 😌

Awesome! 🤗

Only 42 days 😮 till „Kryptos K4: The Solution Auction“ www.rrauction.com/jim-sanborn-...

Great! 🎉😀