CIA Kryptos Auction: Anonymous Bidder Pays $770,000 for Secret to Decode Sculpture

The encoded panels’ creator, Jim Sanborn, sought to unburden himself of the puzzle, and then discovered before an auction he had archived its solution in the Smithsonian.

​The encoded panels’ creator, Jim Sanborn, sought to unburden himself of the puzzle, and then discovered before an auction he had archived its solution in the Smithsonian.