The third part of Kryptos has a seasonal relevance today as being part of Howard Carter’s journal describing the opening of Tutankhamun’s tomb.
Happy Birthday you magnificent bastard.
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its odd how when i looked at dyahr as a bacon cipher, with the yar as A`s and dh as B`s, the letter was t. a t is your position reference? possibly. using john wilsons k3 decoder(no metaphors) when i used the normal settings but deleted dyahr and put t, it screwed around with end a beggining which is in the ciphertext(END YAHROHNS)which is odd. including k4 the plaintext was ,at the end, thatto(i think im not sure ill check later) wich is wierd. k4 is pretty mad based on this.
On twilight eyes does anybody see a girl with a ponytail if you look at it it is a side view of a girl with a ponytail
Mrmagnolia writes,reply to kryptosfreaks comments
You are going the wrong way. Jim sanborn basically gave away the answer to the encryption algorithm when he mentioned doorways,unfolding,and using k4 in his quotes. To go through the doorway,you fold the kryptos tableau onto the cipher text panel. Gary Warzin has pointed out how the kr in obkr and the yp in nypvtt match exactly on the cipher panel position and the tableau panel position in k4. Next, kryptos will be backwards. Applying k3s instructions to the tableau creates the CANDLE. Next, kryptos will be closed with the cipher panel at the front and the tableau at the back. The underlying tableau will be the end of the original tableau aligning with k4 CT. So the actual middle-like text will be the underlying tableau. Oh wait unfolding is the way the sculptures panels move. That tells you it’s being deciphered. SO use the underlying tableau as a running key with the words kryptos and kryptos in a quagmire III. Note: the last part is uncertain as can be, but the running key is my only thought. It might be something else, but I’m pretty sure Jim gave us what to put the running key on. Remember that NOVA episode? On a 42 by 8 matrix, Jim sanborn labeled four rows cipher text with the pattern PCPCPCPC. It is as well as solved now.
Awesome! So what does it say?
im not sure i think the last part of my thought pattern is incorrect but possibly you must read backwards.Note: a possible transposition after last step.Note gary phillips put up a similar but not same method
Note: the true method is interruption comparing with the underlying tableau and deleting any matches and running the plaintext without the spaces