It has been 23 years but this Code is not yet Cracked, not even by CIA.The sculpture named Kryptos (Greek word for "hidden") with theme of "intelligence gathering." is situated at CIA headquarters contains a secret message, but not even the agency's brightest can crack its code. Sanborn buried his sculpture's message so deeply that a CIA staffer took seven years to solve just the first three sections.
Kryptos is an encrypted sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn located HQ of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia. Completed on November 1990, there has been much speculation about the meaning of the encrypted messages it bears. The sculpture continues to provide a diversion for cryptanalysts around the world. On completion of the sculpture CIA released the enciphered text, But it took them more than seven years, not the few months Sanborn had expected, to crack sections first three messages, with the fourth remaining one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world. The first code breaker, a CIA employee named David Stein, spent 400 hours working by hand on his own time.
The sculpture comprises of four large copper plates with other elements made of red and green granite, white quartz, and petrified wood.The most prominent feature is a large vertical S-shaped copper screen resembling a scroll, covered with characters constituting encrypted text. The characters consist of the 26 letters of the standard Latin alphabet and question marks cut out of the copper. The main sculpture contains four separate enigmatic messages. 
The ciphertext on one half of the main sculpture contains 869 characters in total. There are also a few incorrect letters in the ciphertext which Sanborn has said were intentional, and a few letters near the beginning of the bottom half have been displaced from their normal positions, intentionally. The other half of the sculpture comprises a keyed Vigenère encryption tableau, consisting of 867 letters. One of the lines of the tableau is one character too long, which Sanborn indicated was accidental.
Sanborn worked with a retiring CIA employee named Ed Scheidt, Chairman of the CIA Cryptographic Center, to come up with the cryptographic systems used on the sculpture.
Solutions
The following are the solutions of parts 1 to 3 of the sculpture. Misspellings present in the code are included as it is.
Solution 1
BETWEEN SUBTLE SHADING AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT LIES THE NUANCE OF IQLUSION
Solution 2
IT WAS TOTALLY INVISIBLE HOWS THAT POSSIBLE ? THEY USED THE EARTHS MAGNETIC FIELD X THE INFORMATION WAS GATHERED AND TRANSMITTED UNDERGRUUND TO AN UNKNOWN LOCATION X DOES LANGLEY KNOW ABOUT THIS ? THEY SHOULD ITS BURIED OUT THERE SOMEWHERE X WHO KNOWS THE EXACT LOCATION ? ONLY WW THIS WAS HIS LAST MESSAGE X THIRTY EIGHT DEGREES FIFTY SEVEN MINUTES SIX POINT FIVE SECONDS NORTH SEVENTY SEVEN DEGREES EIGHT MINUTES FORTY FOUR SECONDS WEST X LAYER TWO
Sanborn contacted the Kryptos Group (an online community for Kryptos puzzle) to inform them that the accepted solution to part 2 was wrong. Hetold them that he made an error in the sculpture by omitting an "X" used to indicate a break for aesthetic reasons, and that the decrypted text which ended "..FOUR SECONDS WEST ID BY ROWS" will actually be "..FOUR SECONDS WEST X LAYER TWO".
Solution 3
SLOWLY DESPARATLY SLOWLY THE REMAINS OF PASSAGE DEBRIS THAT ENCUMBERED THE LOWER PART OF THE DOORWAY WAS REMOVED WITH TREMBLING HANDS I MADE A TINY BREACH IN THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER AND THEN WIDENING THE HOLE A LITTLE I INSERTED THE CANDLE AND PEERED IN THE HOT AIR ESCAPING FROM THE CHAMBER CAUSED THE FLAME TO FLICKER BUT PRESENTLY DETAILS OF THE ROOM WITHIN EMERGED FROM THE MIST X CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING Q ?
It is a quotation from Howard Carter's account of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun on November 26, 1922, as described in his book The Tomb of Tutankhamun.
Solution 4
Part 4 remains unsolved, though there is an active Group that coordinates the work of over 2000 members toward decryption of the code.
When commenting about his error in section 2, Sanborn told that the answers to the first sections contain clues to the last section. In November 2010, Sanborn released another clue: Letters 64-69 NYPVTT in part 4 encode the text BERLIN
Let’s see when the Section 4 takes another seven years or we could see it solution in near future.
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