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A secret code hidden in plain sight on the side of a Great Western Railway train has finally been cracked, revealing a ...

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The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, recently took a bizarre twist.