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Kryptos is a distributed sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.[1]

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  1. 72 relations: Abscissa and ordinate, Alias (TV series), Ancient Greek, Antipodes (sculpture), California, Central Intelligence Agency, Clock of Flowing Time, CNN, Compass rose, Computer scientist, Constable & Robinson, Copiale cipher, Copper, Cryptanalysis, Cryptography, Cyrillic Projector, Cyrillic script, Dan Brown, Edward Scheidt, Elonka Dunin, Encryption, Freedom of Information Act (United States), Geodetic datum, George Bush Center for Intelligence, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, Granite, HarperCollins, Hill cipher, History of cryptography, Howard Carter, Intellipedia, James Gillogly, Jim Sanborn, Key (cryptography), KGB, Kim Zetter, Langley, Virginia, Latin alphabet, Lodestone, Logic, Marshall Flinkman, Mengenlehreuhr, Morse code, National Security Agency, Palimpsest, Petrified wood, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Quartz, Question mark, Reflecting pool, ... Expand index (22 more) »

  2. 1990 establishments in Virginia
  3. 1990 sculptures
  4. Copper sculptures in the United States
  5. Granite sculptures in Virginia
  6. Outdoor sculptures in Virginia
  7. Sculptures by Jim Sanborn
  8. Stone sculptures in Virginia
  9. Undeciphered historical codes and ciphers
  10. Wooden sculptures in the United States

Abscissa and ordinate

In common usage, the abscissa refers to the x coordinate and the ordinate refers to the y coordinate of a standard two-dimensional graph.

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Alias (TV series)

Alias is an American action thriller and science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons from September 30, 2001, to May 22, 2006.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Antipodes (sculpture)

Antipodes is a public artwork by American sculptor Jim Sanborn located outside of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, United States. Kryptos and Antipodes (sculpture) are Copper sculptures in the United States and sculptures by Jim Sanborn.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Clock of Flowing Time

The Clock of Flowing Time (Uhr der fließenden Zeit) is a high water clock extending over three floors in the Berlin Europa-Center.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Compass rose

A compass rose, sometimes called a wind rose, rose of the winds or compass star, is a figure on a compass, map, nautical chart, or monument used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west) and their intermediate points.

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Computer scientist

A computer scientist is a scholar who specializes in the academic study of computer science.

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Constable & Robinson

Constable & Robinson Ltd. is an imprint of Little, Brown which publishes fiction and non-fiction books and ebooks.

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Copiale cipher

The Copiale cipher is an encrypted manuscript consisting of 75,000 handwritten characters filling 105 pages in a bound volume. Kryptos and Copiale cipher are history of cryptography.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.

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Cryptanalysis

Cryptanalysis (from the Greek kryptós, "hidden", and analýein, "to analyze") refers to the process of analyzing information systems in order to understand hidden aspects of the systems.

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Cryptography

Cryptography, or cryptology (from κρυπτός|translit.

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Cyrillic Projector

The Cyrillic Projector is a sculpture created by American artist Jim Sanborn in the early 1990s, and purchased by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1997. Kryptos and Cyrillic Projector are history of cryptography and sculptures by Jim Sanborn.

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Cyrillic script

The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.

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Dan Brown

Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author best known for his thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon novels Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), and ''Origin'' (2017).

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Edward Scheidt

Edward Michael Scheidt is a retired Chairman of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Cryptographic Center and the designer of the cryptographic systems used in the Kryptos sculpture at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

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Elonka Dunin

Elonka Dunin (born December 29, 1958) is an American video game developer and cryptologist.

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Encryption

In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming (more specifically, encoding) information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can decode.

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Freedom of Information Act (United States)

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA),, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased or uncirculated information and documents controlled by the U.S. government upon request.

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Geodetic datum

A geodetic datum or geodetic system (also: geodetic reference datum, geodetic reference system, or geodetic reference frame) is a global datum reference or reference frame for precisely representing the position of locations on Earth or other planetary bodies by means of geodetic coordinates.

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George Bush Center for Intelligence

The George Bush Center for Intelligence is the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, located in the unincorporated community of Langley in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, near Washington, D.C. The headquarters is a conglomeration of the Original Headquarters Building (OHB) and the New Headquarters Building (NHB) and sits on a total of of land. Kryptos and George Bush Center for Intelligence are Central Intelligence Agency.

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George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon

George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, (26 June 1866 – 5 April 1923), styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Hill cipher

In classical cryptography, the Hill cipher is a polygraphic substitution cipher based on linear algebra.

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History of cryptography

Cryptography, the use of codes and ciphers to protect secrets, began thousands of years ago.

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Howard Carter

Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings.

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Intellipedia

Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States Intelligence Community (IC).

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James Gillogly

James J. Gillogly (born 5 March 1946) is an American computer scientist and cryptographer.

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Jim Sanborn

Herbert James Sanborn, Jr. (born November 14, 1945, in Washington, D.C.) is an American sculptor.

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Key (cryptography)

A key in cryptography is a piece of information, usually a string of numbers or letters that are stored in a file, which, when processed through a cryptographic algorithm, can encode or decode cryptographic data.

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KGB

The Committee for State Security (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB)) was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 until 3 December 1991.

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Kim Zetter

Kim Zetter is an American investigative journalist and author who has covered cybersecurity and national security since 1999.

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Langley, Virginia

Langley is an unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

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Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.

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Lodestone

Lodestones are naturally magnetized pieces of the mineral magnetite.

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Logic

Logic is the study of correct reasoning.

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Marshall Flinkman

Marshall J. Flinkman is a fictional character on the television series, Alias.

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Mengenlehreuhr

The Mengenlehreuhr (German for "Set Theory Clock") or Berlin-Uhr ("Berlin Clock") is the first public clock in the world that tells the time by means of illuminated, coloured fields, for which it entered the Guinness Book of Records upon its installation on 17 June 1975.

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Morse code

Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs.

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National Security Agency

The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

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Palimpsest

In textual studies, a palimpsest is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off in preparation for reuse in the form of another document.

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Petrified wood

Petrified wood (from Ancient Greek πέτρα meaning 'rock' or 'stone'; literally 'wood turned into stone'), is the name given to a special type of fossilized wood, the fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Quartz

Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide).

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Question mark

The question mark (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.

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Reflecting pool

A reflecting pool, also called a reflection pool, is a water feature found in gardens, parks and memorial sites.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Studies in Intelligence

Studies in Intelligence is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal on intelligence that is published by the Center for the Study of Intelligence, a group within the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

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Subscript and superscript

A subscript or superscript is a character (such as a number or letter) that is set slightly below or above the normal line of type, respectively.

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The Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the U.S. state of Maryland and provides coverage of local, regional, national, and international news.

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The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown.

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The Da Vinci Code WebQuests

The Da Vinci Code WebQuests (also called The Da Vinci Code Challenges) are a series of web-based puzzles related to the bestselling 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code, as well as the 2006 film.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Lost Symbol

The Lost Symbol is a 2009 novel written by American writer Dan Brown.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Recruit (American TV series)

The Recruit is an American spy-adventure television series created by Alexi Hawley for Netflix.

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Tomb of Tutankhamun

The tomb of Tutankhamun, also known by its tomb number, KV62, is the burial place of Tutankhamun (reigned), a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings.

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Transposition cipher

In cryptography, a transposition cipher (also known as a permutation cipher) is a method of encryption which scrambles the positions of characters (transposition) without changing the characters themselves.

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Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun or Tutankhamen, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who ruled during the late Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. Born Tutankhaten, he was likely a son of Akhenaten, thought to be the KV55 mummy. His mother was identified through DNA testing as The Younger Lady buried in KV35; she was a full sister of her husband.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Vigenère cipher

The Vigenère cipher is a method of encrypting alphabetic text where each letter of the plaintext is encoded with a different Caesar cipher, whose increment is determined by the corresponding letter of another text, the key.

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Voynich manuscript

The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as Voynichese. Kryptos and Voynich manuscript are history of cryptography and Undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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William H. Webster

William Hedgcock Webster (born March 6, 1924) is an American retired attorney and jurist who most recently served as chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council from 2005 until 2020.

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William O. Studeman

William Oliver Studeman (born January 16, 1940) is a retired admiral of the United States Navy and former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, with two extended periods as acting Director of Central Intelligence.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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World Clock (Alexanderplatz)

The World Clock (Weltzeituhr), also known as the Urania World Clock (Urania-Weltzeituhr), is a large turret-style world clock located in the public square of Alexanderplatz in Mitte, Berlin.

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See also

1990 establishments in Virginia

1990 sculptures

Copper sculptures in the United States

Granite sculptures in Virginia

Outdoor sculptures in Virginia

Sculptures by Jim Sanborn

Stone sculptures in Virginia

Undeciphered historical codes and ciphers

Wooden sculptures in the United States

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos

Also known as Cryptos, Kryptos Group, Kryptos Puzzle.

, Sculpture, Simon & Schuster, Studies in Intelligence, Subscript and superscript, The Baltimore Sun, The Da Vinci Code, The Da Vinci Code WebQuests, The Guardian, The Lost Symbol, The New York Times, The Recruit (American TV series), Tomb of Tutankhamun, Transposition cipher, Tutankhamun, United States, Vancouver, Vigenère cipher, Voynich manuscript, William H. Webster, William O. Studeman, Wired (magazine), World Clock (Alexanderplatz).