OBKR
UOXOGHULBSOLIFBBWFLRVQQPRNGKSSO
TWTQSJQSSEKZZWATJKLUDIAWINFBNYP
VTTMZFPKWGDKZXTJCDIGKUHUAUEKCAR
Whoever solves it becomes famous, gets the keys to the kingdom and gets to marry the princess. Well, no, not really but they do get our respect and admiration. And they actually do ge to be famous…
No one has solved this one yet. How do I know? Because even if it doesn’t yield some fantastic universal truth and they didn’t solve the overall riddle of Kryptos, most people won’t care and will still think they are an intellectual giant. Most people wouldn’t be able to resist the lure of telling the world that they solved what no one in the world, the CIA or the NSA has been able to solve. And no, not any 3 letter acronyms have solved it either because they would want bragging rights and the chance to redeem themselves for not being able to conquer something they see everyday at lunch. It sits, cold and lettered, mocking them…
This leads us to try some pretty crazy things.
Hi kryp (sorry for my english
, i don’t try to solve the kryptos but i think is a conbination of 2 or more krypto systems, however i found this article that explains the kryptos maybe has a mistake,
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70701
is a very interesting problem, i’m going to have a look and we keep in touch
good luck
Thanks!
hy i found this:
http://www.elonka.com/kryptos/
and this is a mini tutorial of encripting
http://www.cs.bc.edu/~straubin/cs381-05/blockciphers/rijndael_ingles2004.swf
Bummer, I can’t get the Flash to work… I see three commands but when I try them nothing works. I won’t pretend I understand block and stream ciphers really well.
Elonka is pretty big into Kryptos, she actually coordinated some of the efforts that finally lead to Sanborn’s Cyrillic Projector being deciphered. I think unfortunately for her, she is a very creative and talented person and people are looking to her for a solution to Kryptos. That’s a lot of pressure. Also, it means that she either has to keep her attempts completely secret or have everyone brute force them for her because they want someone to tell them how to try and solve it. I don’t envy the position she’s in but I think she likes the fame a little so I guess there’s some compensations.
Never mind! Got it to work. I think these types of ciphers are probably a little too much for what Scheidt and Sanborn had in mind but that might be just me. The idea of trying to solve this with pencil and paper is too much for me… Of course, I’m the guy who looks for shortcuts to just about everything soooo….
I’m not a crypto guy by anymeans, but I had a WAG or a hunch and tried it out. This could be completely useless but worth a thought or two. I took K4 and turned the letters into numbers like deciphering a SMS txt message. so that OBKR became 6257 then turned that into a new sms txt message which became MAJP. It surely didnt solve anything but when a double or triple number showed up, like 777 that would become S. Once I completed it, I could certainly tell that there was some sort of pattern there (could just be my mind looking for a pattern) but it seemed to flow like a message.
It was just a thought, but any further deciphering is beyond my limited skills.
maybe i’m on to something, maybe not, but if it helps I’m glad to have helped, if not… oh well.
It’s a great idea because it introduces a translation that would help mask the plaintext plus it’s not something a strict cryptographer would likely consider. I guess the dilemma would be that each letter would = a number and that number could be one of 3-4 letters. It would definitely be interesting to try though…
VIETNAM SOS MIA OSS NEARBY HQ SOS Q
K
VIETNAM
O
HQ
P
OSS
R
SOS
S
SOS
T
NEARBY
Y
MIA
Q
VIETNAM HQ OSS SOS SOS NEARBY MIA Q
Here is the entire solution.
VIETNAM SOS MIA OSS NEARBY HQ SOS PTSSWORD ENTER MR X CAME XEARNING T X DRAWN LAST NASA MOON SEES NAME ART IN OASIS NEST OSS GOES TO IT MINE X ROOM T ARMY IN ENTRY I ONE
Anyone home?
VIETNAM SOS MIA OSS NEARBY HQ SOS PTSSWORD ENTER MR X CAME XEARNING T X DRAW N LAST NASA MOON SEES NAME ART IN OASIS NEST OSS GOES TO IT MINE X ROOM T ARMY IN ENTRY I ONE NAME ON ART E NOT A NASA MAN
Two problems. You don’t state your solution method and the message is unclear. It’s very possible that we’ll have one last puzzle after K4 but we’d have to be sure we’d conquered K4 completely first.
has anyone tried the M-94 cipher page? http://members.aon.at/cipherclerk/VirtualM94.html
the remaining code is 97 characters
I never tried M-94. I suppose it would be worth a shot by taking the first 25 letters and giving it a shot. Did you try it?
“By the power of truth I, while living, have conquered the universe”.
What? Are you like a crazy person?
The final mystery is oneself.
20 years down the crapper
Is it a tree, you would put input and then get output using the two Kryptos puzzles, the one on the right side of the one and the left. Or the Berlin Clue, my father was an engineer could it be related to radio waves.
I also worked for the government (taxes). There are hidden functions in the program that cause it to form tree like branches of information.
I’m not sure how the Berlin clue relates to radio waves, please elaborate.
There is a tree but it’s hiding in plain sight.
The answer to the 4 Kryptos panels = 42!
But what’s the question?
Is the question merely “to ask”, “I ask”, using the RQ SOS clue.
–RQ-
OBKR
Q—-R
This solves to “I Ask”. Now who do we ask? Perhaps we ask Gorky for kryptos messages?
The question is what do you see when you look in the mirror, if you see 42, then K4 has opened the door to K3. You know longer see a square , you no longer see a mirror, you see a pyramid, you have the key to key 1, it is the knowledge of the right. The knowledge of the right is the knowledge of life when when the knowledge is right. It is the key of hope that only K4 can answer. It is the the bond between you and me , that can only be seen, when it can no longer see. The hope of can only come from the voice of many, before it can become thw hope of one. If you are the key you can only open the door to the question only K4 can answer.
CIAxC1AxK1 becomes See I A(see my beginning), x becomes I + I see one beginning=
C becomes K which was C in the beginning, which = I see K1, you gave me the key, I hope I gave you the answer.
Don’t thank me, thank Vinz Clortho.
The Question is “What is the question when it isn’t the answer.”
Vodka isn’t the answer…
…but it makes you forget the question.
How about if the Kryptos Copper Wave suddenly turned into a million copper Kryptos X’s, lightening up the earth. Thats what I saw. And in K4 I the key being one half of the CIA direrctor( the question mark? between 3 and 4. I sAW THE UNIVERSE FILLED WITH MILLIONS OF THE PLANET EARTH. Then I saw a broken key on the other side of the directors side. the broken key was behind the directors key that wasn’t broken. Iwas was in K3. And then I saw past the broken key through the unbroken key. And then I think I saw myself inside a computer that was in K4. But I was a broken key inside ther memory and
someone weas behind me looking through the key. Thats when all the copper lights started flashing. But then I think some thing went wrong. Because that quick I was back in K3 and I saw this I I, in front me and they were copper waves isolatingawhole lot of people on the earth, caught in between a mirror. I think I’m still a piece of memory in case 4 and I’m looking at it from k3. Is there a key looking back at the Question mark in k4?
Yeah, actually I’m pretty sure you’re still in K3 because the question mark isn’t attached to K4.
What’s a Kryptos X?
Alyssa, are you sure you’re not Golgafrinchan? That might be part of the problem.
Refrigerator
When I entered CIAxC1AxK1 into Jim Sanborns 10 Characters, it accepted it, I thought that meant it was the first 10 charactera
I think you’re supposed to get an email back if you got the right answer and he’ll ask for all 97.
I tried to enter five times and it wouldn’t take and it kept coming back with the same error. Then I entered the CIA and it came back with my answer beneath it and the original place where you put it blank. Then I went down to my email and it would only take if I mirrored my email.and then submitted it with the answer below the top which was blank. Then it took and said thanks for your submission. The CIAxC1AXxK1, comes from a lot of your answers in your web site. Its just a combination of your answers. They all seem to evolve around the mathematics of evolution, the right or wrong (1 or 0) of computer programming, the hour glass and how the top and bottom mirror each other. I can’t help but think it comes through the fact of how we see the world through the eyes of men and what would it look like if we saw it through the eyes of women. My daughter wrote a poem when she was 18. It said I look at the mirror..what do I see.. I look through the mirror…I don’t see me. To me thats a broken mirror because she doesn’t see what I see/ or she doesn’t want to see me because i look at the world through the eyes of men.. I know it sounds crazy but I think you are brilliant and awesome for your answers. Thanks for your input. Its funny and its honest.
I went back to the place where you enter the 10 characters and entered 0000000001, and came up with the sourcecode for the page. Shouldn’t that tell you what the 10 characters are. I also copied the Kryptos box to my computer and it started covering each window I accessed. The only way I could close each window was by clicking on the kryptos box twice. I also got the sourcecode for the kryptos box. Something even stranger???? My sister who I haven’t seen since last Thanksgiving told me the “ODDFELLOWS” (masons) sent her an email asking if she wanted four skeletons and a gold chalice????????? she took them. The name on her license plate is KRYPT ….. I still think the answer to kryptos is the circle squared….. add the “O” (circle) “S” (squared). add that too the license plate and you get KRYPTOS. Am I still a golgafrinchan????
I think Krptos is how information is stored. On the right side are the ABC’s surrounded by 26 nimbers. I think the numbers stand for Title 26. Entitlement to the land of the united states. When I look at Kryptos as a whole I see the flag all the way up to 8. So how is information stored in 0K1 – the bible, in YK1 its copper, in Yk2 it should be the translation of the ABC’s into computer language. Thats shown in WiKipedia, the computer ABC’s.
K4 Irving Berlins the star spangled banner
the flag of nations
Hi everybody,
I want to share you a idea… maybe we can translate all the letter on the signification of the number on a phone and search some anagram with the other letters on each phone number… Like.. OBKR (phone signification number 6257) and thats possible to make a word like OAKS… What do you thnik about this idea?
I think it’s fun.
A fellow named Bob suggested something similar and it sparked a similar idea to what you were thinking here. http://tinyurl.com/3vu948e I wasn’t able to take it very far but like I said, it is definitely a fun idea.
The word kryptos is in k4.
could Berlin in k4 stand for reline B
is 1 to the second power heaven?
is kryptos a kry post, a stop kry post
is the copper sculpture stand for a flag, the tree stands for a flag pole, and possibly someone has seized our flag because it is off the post.
If you turned the ww on its side wouldn’t it be a mirror image of the six sigma sign.
“is 1 to the second power heaven?”
1^2=1
1 above the one and to the right in a square
I think you meant the left…
It goes in the direction of the power sign,,the power sign is on the right side, not the left. If you are moving to the left and down instead of up to the right then you are hiding something..in relation to a square or a graph +
not if you’re finding the inverse of a function
That depends on your point of view. Look at the last 3 letters in K4. The ARC. Look at a point in +. Do we draw the circle around the point, Or does the point move around in a continuous circle, allowing us to have a view of the point. A frame doesn’t have a column until it looks for support. It starts with 2 rows like an =. Somewhat like man and woman, to stop the two lines. A child grows like ! from a point, not down like an i.
Perhaps K4 is the . of view of Berlin. Berlin could mean r line….review…or review linear B.
v iew …maybe represents a view as a 5th view of K4… from outside of Kryptos.
Not everything is written in stone (sign of one table) After all L=A+E or the word
L a n g u a g e the angle (L) a + that between a through e,
We see different things with our eyes. we hear different things, we sense different things.
Its probably why are economy isn’t working, the math isn’t right for everyone just some.
The math isn’t the problem.
The computer program is.
Computers can only do what a human has programmed them to do.
what happens when only one person has the key. And the key is the question. You can have all the answers in the world but if you don’t have the question, then what good are the answers. you would have to balance the accounts using 1 to the first power if and only if the program uses the Mona Lisa or davinci code. Take a square then move it to the right. But remember if you move too far to the right the frame collapses.
What happens if?
ff
point of unity
embed or id
game of life game as in square (are squared away)
or game as in roadkill
berlin wall or merlin wall
plato or copperplate
starfish or fish hook (jelly fish)
protester or patriot
division or id vision
fusion or confusion
individual property – in terms of windows, google
if you were born in the 1700′s would anyone have invented windows or google
where do individual rights begin?
Each person is entitled to their small piece of land without being taxed on it regardless of who they are
compact on taxes reason for real estate fall
kryptos is what happens when only one person has the question while everyone else has the answer. Knots are Knots not nots
review your view… is it an ark or an arc if you only had one guess
is it something you can see or is it beneath the sea
Genesis 1 See Ark
2 sea arc
what if knot what is? or what if not what is?
see the k now you don’t
K for nought?
Hello everyone. I have some good news. What I did was lay out the code using a quadrangle. A quadrangle is a square with one or more spaces, usually in a corner, that cannot be occupied mathematically. One good quadrangle is the Chutes and Ladders game. At position 1 (lower left) on the quadrangle I deployed the unsolved code beginning with OBK… and so on.
Then I used an Enigma Machine and clues from the sculpture for the Enigma rotor position and the initial position.
SOS (from the Morse Code section of Kryptos) using the alphabet keyed with “Kryptos” puts SOS at position “7,6,7″.
The initial posiiton I derived from the mispellings in the upper quadrant of the solved code, specifically the “QUA”. This gives an initial position of 17,21,8.
Below is an image I am linking to prove what I am talking about.
http://www.opordanalytical.com/kryptos/opord_767_17_21_8.jpg
Enjoy.
Chris, I thought you already solved K4?
My instincts tell me that the morse code translation is a fragment of a larger solution, which means that something comes before it. So what I did was go back to look at it all again. There are 97 unsolved variables in K-4. If you add the keyword kryptos to that, it gives you 104 variables, which divided by 4 gives you four 26 variable strings which could be used as 26 variable rotors as the Germans did in World War II.
Given that my personality does not allow me to give up on an unsolved problem, here we are. I also know I am going against the grain in the Kryptos community by making these ideas public, when most, if not all, other folks keep their work to themselves in the hopes they will be the sole solver of the code.
To them I say there is no “I” in “team”.
So if one of my ideas leads to solving the code by someone else, that is exactly what I want to happen. See, i was crunching the equations in my mind a few months ago because I think in equations. It’s something I can’t explain. Anyway, I got to thinking that if there were 20,000 people working on this problem for X number of years, it may be the best option to let them win it. I say that because of the possibility that out of that 20,000 people, there may be 50 exceptional ones, and it would be to no one’s benefit to crush them. So even if you are exceptional, it is more beneficial for a group setting to universally figure something out than a single individual. Getting past the groupthink however is the most difficult challenge outside of the method of solving kryptos.
So Kryptosfan, did you check out the rotor positions and IP (not internet protocol but Initial Point) that I used? There are 10 variables of the first 10 variables of the 97 unsolved variables accounted for. The 10th is an “I”, but that is explainable in the quadrangle position “10″ which uses an up arrow. The “L” is from variable position 16 dropping down to position 6 using the distribution method of the Chutes and Ladders game.
I’m anti-rotor for this one. Firstly, we don’t have enough intercepts, we didn’t have known plaintext breaks before Berlin, 97 letters isn’t enough to analyze,etc. etc. etc. If we can trust James Sanborn and Edward Scheidt then by their comments I also believe it’s a “paper-and-pencil” system. I could be tragically wrong on all counts.
I do think it’s good for some folks to be approaching it from a Purple/Hebern/Enigma angle. Good luck!
I too believe in openly sharing Kryptos efforts.
Kryptos
krypt 000000
krypt rings
some wors
Liberty
Childgate there is a code that uses a childgate
codebroken
using lettersover againaatangles
howaboutantiquebooks and documents1991
how aboutRepeat letters like
Psalm
Lap alps laptop
plan aps
pass ass
how about route numbers
or
time
ortimewhen it equals map equations
stream of consciousness?
Berlin is short for Ben Franklin. Braille came before the morse code. The blind leading the blind.
Taxes = the base for the church (Pope Ben back then, and now Pope Ben again).
The holy graille.
Kryptos – a table where the motions were already put into place.
Next to the sculpture is a tree. At night the moon reflects off the copper and shows a sign on the tree. It is the celestrial compass. The sign of the owls, the sign of parliament rule.
Only the “In God we trust” placed on the dollar bill is a signal for what goes around comes around”.
The 122112 date, is the top half of a meter reading. Where you only see one point of view. The owl (or the lower view was seen by a child who saw the light on the tree). It is the tree of light now not the tree of life. It can only be seen by the eyes of the innocent.
There is a key. It is the whole trail.