Rhizome.org Editorial Fellow Yin Ho wrote up a new Kryptos piece with new interview questions AND answers from James Sanborn. It’s worth a look.
p.s. Started a Kryptos PR section.
p.p.s. Started a new effort with reversing a possible superencipherment in Kryptos’ K4.
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Just an observation while we wait:
OBKR
UOXOGHULBSOLIFBBWFLRVQQPRNGKSSO
TWTQSJQSS EKZZ WATJ KLU DI AWINFBNYP
VTTMZFPKWGDKZXTJCDIGKUHUAUEKCAR
Vignere ENcrypt keyword Alphabet Key:Passphrase: J Encrypt
UXJL
EUHUPTEAXVUAOYXXGYALFDDNLCPJVVU
QGQDVSDVV RJII GWQS JAE KO WGOCYXCMN <— note Jae Ko
FQQBIYNJGPKJIHQSZKOPJETEWERJZWL
OBKR
UOXOGHULBSOLIFBBWFLRVQQPRNGKSSO
TWTQSJQSS EKZZ WATJ KLU DI AWINFBNYP
VTTMZFPKWGDKZXTJCDIGKUHUAUEKCAR
Vignere ENcrypt keyword Alphabet Key:Passphrase: A
FIAB
YFOFQUYXIGFXVNIITNXBPRRDBKQAGGF
ETERGWRGG MASS THEW AXY LV HTVKNIKCD <— note Mass the Wax
PEEZSNDATQLASOEWJLVQAYUYHYMAJHB
Jae Ko is a Korean artist known for her sculptures of LAYERs of paper covered in vibrant colors.
Her use of in particular the color Red makes it looks like the sculpture is covered in a Wax like substance
She is also the partner of Mister Samborn.
This is part of the technique used in K4.
Layers (pieces/sections) of text, each layer coded wiith a single letter.
This is (partly) how the letter freqiencies.are hidden.
This is why no keyword works on K4, there are no keywords only key letters (yet).
TP
keyword is the usual Cryptos, I mean Kryptos 😉
You might like this then:
http://tinyurl.com/7pm5ulu
GW QSJAEKO WG
GW
GateWay maybe? Two of them?
7 leters between them
Haven’t checked here in a while but here’s my latest observation:
If you compare letter frequencies between the first and second halves of K4, I noted that letters S and O make up 12% and 10% respectively of the first half, but 0% of the second half. Those differences between the two halves are beyond what you’d expect by chance.
To me, this is strong evidence that the text has been moved around somehow during encryption.
Nice point!
THIS WAS INVISIBLE TO THE ALLYS (TO T ALLY)
DOES ONLY LANGLEY KNOW ABOUT THIS EXACT LOCATION.
THEY KNOW INFORMATION WAS GATHERED AND TRANSMITTEd TO AN uNKNOWN uNDERGRUUND LOCATION SOMEWHERE OUT THERE
POSSIBLE IT WAS THE LAST MESSAGE
THIS WAS HOW THEY KNOW THAT ITS BURIED.
SHOULD USE THE EARTHS MAGNETIC FIELD