University of Houston, in Houston, TX in 2004, and Radiance was installed at the Department of Energy, Coast, and Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge in 2008. Pop culture references The dust jacket of the US version of Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code contains two references to Kryptos - one on the back cover (coordinates printed light red on dark red, vertically next to the blurbs) is a reference to the coordinates mentioned in the plaintext of passage 2 (see above), except the degrees digit is off by one. When Brown and his publisher were asked about this, they both gave the same reply: "The discrepancy is intentional". The coordinates were part of the first clue of the second Da Vinci Code WebQuest, the first answer being Kryptos. The other reference is hidden in the brown "tear" artwork—upside-down words which say "Only WW knows", which is another reference to the second message on Kryptos. Kryptos features in Dan Brown's 2009 novel The Lost Symbol. A small version of Kryptos appears in the season 5 episode of Alias "S.O.S.". In it, Marshall Flinkman, in a small moment of comic relief, says he has cracked the code just by looking at it during a tour visit to the CIA office. The solution he describes sounds like the solution to the first two parts. In the season 2 episode of The King of Queens "Meet By-Product", a framed picture of Kryptos hangs on the wall by the door. The progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me has a reference to Kryptos in their song "Obfuscation" from their 2009 album, The Great Misdirect. In the book "Muko and the Secret" four young pupils from the class of Naturals learn about the mysterious sculpture hidden in the school. The hints in the book suggest that this is the sculpture of "Kryptos". In the TV series Gravity Falls, one of Bill Cipher's friends is named "Kryptos." See also A,A Copiale cipher History of cryptography Voynich manuscript Notes References Books (contains 1–2 pages about Kryptos) Journal articles Articles Kryptos 1,735 Alphabetical letters "Gillogly Cracks CIA Art", & "The Kryptos Code Unmasked", 1999, New York Times and Cypherpunks archive "Unlocking the secret of Kryptos", March 17, 2000, Sun Journal "Solving the Enigma of Kryptos", January 26, 2005, Wired, by Kim Zetter "Interest grows in solving cryptic CIA puzzle after link to Da Vinci Code", June 11, 2005, The Guardian "Cracking the Code", June 19, 2005, CNN Mission Impossible: The Code Even the CIA Can't Crack External links Jim Sanborn's official Kryptos webpage by Jim Sanborn Kryptos website maintained by Elonka Dunin (includes Kryptos FAQ, transcript, pictures and links) Kryptos photos by Jim Gillogly Washington Post: Cracking the Code of a CIA Sculpture Wired : Documents Reveal How the NSA Cracked the Kryptos Sculpture Years Before the CIA PBS : Segment (Video) on Kryptos from Nova ScienceNow The General Services Administration Kryptos webpage The General Services Administration Ex Nexum webpage The General Services Administration Indian Run webpage The General Services Administration Binary Systems webpage The Central Intelligence Agency Kryptos webpage The National Security Agency Kryptos webpage The Kryptos Project by Julie (Jew-Lee) Irena Lann<ref> Nicole (Monet) Friedrich's Kryptos Observations Patrick Foster's Kryptos page Category:History of cryptography Category:Outdoor sculptures in Virginia Category:Central Intelligence Agency Category:Riddles Category:Undeciphered historical codes and ciphers Category:1990 sculptures Category:McLean, Virginia Category:Sculptures by Jim Sanborn Category:Buildings and structures in Fairfax County, Virginia Category:Copper sculptures in the United States Category:Granite sculptures in Virginia Category:Stone sculptures in Virginia Category:Wooden sculptures in the United States Category:1990 establishments in Virginia