K4
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…