Well Kryptos fans, it’s not really a power outage though, more of a learning curve.
I’m not 
but I am 
It’s more that I need context. I need good questions. I need better questions. I need really, really good questions. I need questions so good that these guys won’t be able to resist answering. More research, better development, better better better!
Unfortunately it’s taking me awhile. I’m trying to read books, watch movies, learn history, anything to get caught up and know what exactly to ask.
I’m pretty sure I’m only going to have one shot at this. Not to be dramatic but to even have a chance of getting people I’ve never met who are simultaneously hounded by the media and yet inclined to secrecy to talk, well, these will have to be questions they’ll want the chance to answer.
By the way, anyone have anything they are just dying to ask about Kryptos?
Most questions I’d have would probably require answers that gave hints, so I wouldn’t want to ask until a solution is public. Maybe the least-so is: what music were you and your assistants listening to as you worked? What was going on in your head on the roadtrip to the southwest to pick up the petrified log? Were you thinking of last minute changes, different ideas, imagining how it would be received? Worried that it would be cracked too soon? Or, unlikely, did you worry it would stand too long uncracked?
After a solution is public, I’d want to ask: what would you have done differently? What did you want to do but couldn’t due to resources and restrictions? Did any of the folks who contacted you come on even part of a solution? And then a few other technical questions that wouldn’t be appropriate to even state now.
I’d say those are probably all fair questions. It’s the ones you don’t ask that are the most curious.