In 35 years, amateur and professional passwords have tried to crack the code KryptosA majestic sculpture behind the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. In the 1990s, CIA, NSAAnd a computer scientist of the Independence Rand Group gave translations for three of the four writing tables of the sculpture. But the last segment, called K4, encoded by Knottier techniques and has not been resolved. This failure is only deepen the obsession Among thousands of coding houses. When one of them thought they had the answer, they wrote a letter to Jim Sanborn to confirm. Sanborn is an artist who created the installation and the only one who knows the answer. Recently the speed has increased. And Sanborn is being marked out of the area, although not for the reasons you may think.
Consider email from a recent codebreaker. What takes 35 years and even NSA with all their resources cannot be done in just 3 hours before I drink coffee in the morning, it started, before the writer gave Sanborn what they believed was a solution that was difficult to grasp the universe. The history of history has rewritten, wrote the submit. There is no 100%error. You may ask, what allows someone to believe that they are superior to mathematicians and the most elite mathematicians in the world, including some of the ghosts that can be There is a quantum computer In the basement? The answer is pure 2025: Chatbot!
It pointed out that the current generation of AI models is very happy to accept the reminder to solve Kryptos, give the message decoded in the clear and declare victory. Sanborn said he was increasingly seeing it. Of course, the solution of this writer has died wrong, like thousands of Sanborns have been returned.
Sanborn contacted me recently to express his disgust with this development. He felt like a big change, he said. The numbers (of submission) have increased significantly. And the personality of emails is different, those who have made their codes with who fully believe that they have cracked Kryptos during breakfast! Who seems to be lying to them, telling everyone among them that 99.99% certainly that they have cracked Kryptos, congratulations. Therefore, they all believe that when they approached me, they cracked it.
This annoys Sanborn in many ways. Until recently, there was an unwritten agreement between the artist and the believer of Kryptos that the effort to crack the code would be seriously implemented. (A few years ago, Sanborn began Charger $ 50 To consider the solutions, provide a speed bump to filter out wild lawsuits and particle cases.) It is the person who is included in the artistic nature of Kryptos; There is an object despite the solution in the backyard of the CIA that is a comment on the aspect of Fuhouse-Mirror of Intelligence Gathering, where all the truths are suspected. The fact that thousands of people spent a large amount of effort to reveal clearly The sheets have been decoded so far, The message of Sanborn is a shine of secret. Newcomers do not seem to be aware of this complexity.
The crowd of people trying to crack Kryptos today did not know what Kryptos was, he said Sanborn. He found himself sifting through emails from Randos using AI shortcuts that require less thought and expertise, not to mention the appreciation for the challenge. It is like saying that you have expanded Everest by walking by helicopter to the top of the mountain but worse, because these anti -ankle people are completely unable to solve the code. They hardly climb above the sea level. Sometimes, in his answer, Sanborn did not hold back. I deduced from your certainty that who you used, he told someone who guessed it wrong. “Who lies, and doesn't have enough information.”