Mr. Sanborn has spent years answering tens of thousands of emails from people who believe they have cracked the puzzle. About 10 years ago, he started charging people $50 for a “short personal response” to emails in order to weed out most of the guesses.
“What can I say? I’m tired of it,” he said in an interview, adding an expletive before “tired.”
But the NY times article about the auction just came out on 8/14. Seems pretty coincidental that this post (that kind of suspiciously says nothing about the auction) would show up.
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u/TripCruise 3d ago edited 3d ago
I thought I read recently that they planned to auction off the final code?
Edit: Yep! NYT Article link (paywall)
A Solution to the C.I.A.’s ‘Kryptos’ Sculpture Goes Up for Auction - The New York Times
Exerpt:
Mr. Sanborn has spent years answering tens of thousands of emails from people who believe they have cracked the puzzle. About 10 years ago, he started charging people $50 for a “short personal response” to emails in order to weed out most of the guesses.
“What can I say? I’m tired of it,” he said in an interview, adding an expletive before “tired.”