"The archive owned by the artist who created Kryptos, Jim Sanborn, was sold to an anonymous bidder for $963,000, according to RR Auction of Boston. The archive includes documents and coding charts for the sculpture, dedicated in 1990. Three of the messages on the 10-foot-tall (3-meter) sculpture - known as K1, K2 and K3 - have been solved, but a solution for the fourth, K4, has frustrated the experts and enthusiasts who have tried to decipher the S-shaped copper screen."
"The winner will get a private meeting with the 80-year-old artist to go over the codes and charts in hopes of continuing what he's been doing for decades: interacting with would-be cryptanalyst sleuths. One person has contacted Sanborn regularly for the past two decades in an effort to solve K4, and Sanborn received so many inquiries he started charging $50 per submission."
The Kryptos archive created by sculptor Jim Sanborn sold to an anonymous bidder for $963,000 through RR Auction of Boston. The archive includes documents and coding charts for the sculpture, which was dedicated in 1990. Three encrypted messages (K1, K2 and K3) on the 10-foot, S-shaped copper sculpture have been solved; the fourth message, K4, remains unsolved. The auction winner will receive a private meeting with Sanborn to review the codes, charts and an alternate paragraph called K5. Sanborn previously charged $50 per submission and hopes the purchaser will steward the material and continue engagement with followers.
Read at Boston.com
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