Kryptos: The Unsolved Cipher Outside the CIA's HQ #shorts

#shorts

[harrisonbergeron]

They can't break it because it is a Troll by the sculptor. When he dies it will say "Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine".

[jakedaniels]

We should just ask the man who cracked the enigma machine. Obviously we didn’t do anything fucked up to him and can ask him for help.

[edwinkjellzahn]

There’s another player in this you forgot to mention. The first person to publicly announce that they solved the first 3 parts: a little known cryptographer and computer scientist known as Jim Gillogly. He successfully decoded the first three parts but the NSA later said one of their agents got there first six months earlier. So you can choose who you want to believe but it is MUCH funnier to think that some guy beat the NSA to the punch.

[cjslime]

I respect the guy who made sure his secrets don’t go to the grave

[disconnected]

if gaming has taught me anything,
solving the last passage will start an optional boss battle

[octavianpedigree]

If National Treasure has taught me anything, something to do with the way holes cast shadows at certain times of the day has something to do with it.

[Buzz_the_Cat]

Once it’s finally solved it just says “f*** the government”

[Arendvdvenk]

Never let the answer to your CIA riddle be your death, that is kinda their whole schtick.

[wibblytimey]

The final passage is a tribute to the cipher artist’s wife and reads “never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you”

[Woodshadow]

It’s more than that. There are groups who meet with this guy because they want to solve it. It’s wild that it hasn’t been solved yet

[TheMadmanAndre]

My bet is that the last code is a one-time pad. Basically impossible to solve without another critical piece of info, that being whatever the artist leaves behind after his death.

It would effectively make the sculpture the author's epitaph.

[corrstud]

*Vsauce musics starts playing*
"Hey guys Vsauce here and today were solving a cipher that the CIA and NSA can't figure out"



(Edit: TY for the likes)

[olympian]

4chan sweats: "It's my time to shine"

[imdfox]

“The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”

[yt.personal.identification]

PLOT TWIST - The 4th is random gibberish, so he can guarantee a payout for his family after death.

Wouldn't want anyone cracking it before he gets paid.

[falloutboi]

Its a wavy structure. Why would an artist do just plain copy paste the code? It probably has to do with the shadow or maybe reading through the folds

[richen]

I bet they made three solvable ones and then just scribbled some bullshit on the last one so no one could decipher it and everyone would think he was smarter than he actually was

[CamstonIsland]

There's one at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's campus, except its actually in Cyrillic and cylindrical instead of wavy. Across the path from it is a similar sculpture with the text of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations on it that wraps around in a way resembling a spinning top. It's outside the history and economics buildings respectively.

[persassyjackson]

My fatal flaw is thinking I could solve this

[net_spider]

It would be hilarious if the last one either had a mistake, rendering any cypher useless, or was purposely created to be unsolvable.