{"id":7927,"date":"2025-10-25T05:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/part-four-of-the-kryptos-sculpture-html\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T05:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:03:28","slug":"part-four-of-the-kryptos-sculpture-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/part-four-of-the-kryptos-sculpture-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Part Four of The Kryptos Sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Part Four of The Kryptos Sculpture<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Two people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/16\/science\/kryptos-cia-solution-sanborn-auction.html\">found the solution<\/a>. They used the power of research, not cryptanalysis, finding clues amongst the Sanborn papers at the Smithsonian\u2019s Archives of American Art.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as an awkward time, as Sanborn is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/08\/jim-sanborn-is-auctioning-off-the-solution-to-part-four-of-the-kryptos-sculpture.html\">auctioning off<\/a> the solution. There were legal threats\u2014I don\u2019t understand their basis\u2014and the solvers are not publishing their solution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/10\/part-four-of-the-kryptos-sculpture.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part Four of The Kryptos Sculpture Two people found the solution. They used the power of research, not cryptanalysis, finding clues amongst the Sanborn papers at the Smithsonian\u2019s Archives of American Art. This comes as an awkward time, as Sanborn is auctioning off the solution. There were legal threats\u2014I don\u2019t understand their basis\u2014and the solvers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,1331,806,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-7927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-cia","category-cryptography","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}