Kryptos is a 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. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos)
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The Kryptos sculpture is devided into four different segments with names, K1, K2, K3, and K4. The tree first segments have been solved, but the segment (K4) is still unsolved (2025-12-29).
There is a lot of information online about the artwork and the work that has been devoted to understanding and solving its mysterious puzzles.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVpsLMCIB0Y
- https://www.cia.gov/legacy/headquarters/kryptos-sculpture/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/KryptosK4/
I created this repo as a fun evening project to render the ciphers in an HTML table. There may be errors in the information and/or visualization, and some details may not be exactly as they appear in the sculpture.