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For you regular readers of my blog – both of you – you probably know that I am past president of the American Cryptogram Association (ACA) and have always been fascinated with codes and ciphers. As you may also know, there is a famous (among cipher fans, anyway) sculpture in the courtyard of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) called Kryptos.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, it has letters carved into it. There are four panels, each enciphered in some manner by the sculptor. Three of those were deciphered years ago, but the fourth remained unsolved. A few days ago two men discovered that last text, although they did not actually decipher it. They found the original passage by following clues the sculptor left (both intentional and unintentional) that led them to the Smithsonian Institution where the sculptor had done research for the project. So the sculpture text has been broken, but the final cipher method has not been solved.<\/p>\n

I decided to check out the What3Words<\/a> information about that location for fun as I do from time to time. Here are some relevant cites:<\/p>\n

Central.Intelligence.Agency<\/a> is located in a muddy field in West Helena, Arkansas, clearly a ploy by our country’s spymasters to divert foreign adversaries.<\/p>\n

data.live.shower<\/a> is the actual location of the Kryptos sculpture, but when you enter those words intro W3W, it says they are in the vicinity of Brookmont, MD, not only the wrong city, but the wrong state. Yet another CIA disinformation ploy? Well, Brookmont is right across the Potomac River from the CIA compound, closer than central Langley.<\/p>\n

The only W3W location in the immediate vicinity of Kryptos that hints at its true nature is rare.zebra.code<\/a>, which sounds like a code in itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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