| · · ···- ·· ·-· – ··- ·- ·-·· ·-·· -·– · | · · · · · · ·· -· ···- ·· ··· ·· -··· ·-·· · |
| -·· ·· –· · – ·- ·-·· · · · | ·· -· – · ·-· ·–· ·-· · – ·- – ·· – |
| · · ··· ···· ·- -·· — ·– · · | ··-· — ·-· -·-· · ··· · · · · · |
| ·-·· ··- -·-· ·· -·· · · · | — · — — ·-· -·– · |
| – ·· ··· -·– — ··- ·-· | ·–· — ··· ·· – ·· — -· |
| ··· — ··· | |
| ·-· –·- |
Translated it becomes:
| e e v i r t u a l l y e | e e e e e e i n v i s i b l e |
| d i g e t a l e e e | i n t e r p r e t a t i u |
| e e s h a d o w e e | f o r c e s e e e e e |
| l u c i d e e e | m e m o r y e |
| t i s y o u r | p o s i t i o n |
| s o s | |
| r q |
I stole this table off of Gary Phillip’s Realm of Twelve Kryptos site. I think you can see why I recommend these people so much. Hope you don’t mind Gary!
I’ve made another acquisition, this one is from Monet Friedrich, pictures of the morse code on the rocks from Jim Gillogly and their orientations by some sketches.
photo by Jim Gillgoly
photo by Jim Gillgoly
photo by Jim Gillgoly
photo by Jim Gillgoly
photo by Jim Gillgoly
photo by Jim Gillgoly
photo by Jim Gillgoly
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- image by Monet Friedrich
image by Monet Friedrich
I recently (1/18/11) looked at the possibility of a Bacon Cipher in the Morse Code.
Kryptos - Beyond K4 
I don’t mind at all! I’m enjoying your blog.
There seems to be a problem with the table at the very top. Two or more consecutive dashes appear as a single dash (O and M appear as T, P appears at R, etc.).
Try this one:
The pictures are a bit big to make it easier to see so the load time may vary.
Not the pictures. I’m talking about the table at the top.
Yeah, I know.
I’ll figure it out soon, at least until I get it sorted out you can follow the link and get the exact message.
Enjoying your blog
Thanks!
You know, a lot of Kryptosphiles assume “T is your position” is literal, but I’ve never seen anyone talk about “interpretatu”. Maybe that’s literal too – “Interpret at U.” T is your position (the ciphertext as shown on the sculpture), but you need to interpret it at U to get the ciphertext in proper order.
Interpretat It
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Most people are using interpretatu but it doesn’t make sense from the pictures. Not to me anyways.
I know this is an old thread, but maybe you’ll see it anyway:
QTH is morse code for What is your position.
K3 ends in a Q, so let’s assume OB (of OBKR) is TH (for the, this, that, whatever).
The key to get that is RQ (in Vigenere Cipher with the alphabet key KRYPTOS). And RQ is one of the morse codes.
I think the Qs play an important role. An artist would usually sign his work. Do we find JS or SJ somewhere? Yep, between two Qs: QSJQ.
btw. I do know German, but I doubt any words apart from Berlin-Ost, Berlin-West are in German. Well maybe we’ll find “Ich bin ein Berliner” in it, but I doubt that.
I hadn’t even heard of Q codes before, thank you!
What if the Morse “RQ” is a fragment of a Q code itself? That would actually have it make sense instead of a random two letters.
I think there’s an Edward Scheidt quote somewhere where he says the plaintext of K4 is English but I’d have to track it down. I think it’s either the Wired I interview or a transcript from one of this dinner parties.
Yeah, I think I read somewhere that it is in English (mentioned it because you were looking for German speaking people in a different thread).
RQ is usually used to indicate a question. so basically Q? and Q+RQ are the same.
I’ve got some more observations to share, but it’s rather difficult to do so here 🙂
Just a small thing and not sure if it’s mentioned here already:
If you split up the whole cipher text (K1-K4) and make blocks of 7 then all but one pair of double letters (SS) and QSJQ get split in half in K4:
W?OBKRU OXOGHUL BSOLIFB BWFLRVQ QPRNGKS SOTWTQS JQSSEKZ ZWATJKL
UDIAWIN FBNYPVT TMZFPKW GDKZXTJ CDIGKUH UAUEKCA R
What it means? I dunno. 🙂 It might indicate a certain system, just like the repeating KZ, TJ, and DI in K4.
Try taking K4 with the question mark and gridding it out as a 7×14. It makes all of the double letters line up on the ends and NYPVTT is altogether on one line. Maybe it will help you more than it has me. I’ll post my efforts some time in the future, right now I’m trying out different variations but no luck yet.
A place to start with the Morse Code bit
http://jhbunnell.com/morsecode.shtml
However, remember there is the American Morse Code (used by Railroads), Continental and the International Morse Code (and related Prosigns, Q Signals, Abbreviations, etc. for each ecosystem)
For International Morse Code ecosystem, a place to start could be:
http://www.hamuniverse.com/qsignals.html
It’s hard because I feel sometimes like we can read books galore but there are certain things that Ed Scheidt would have taken for granted after having lived in the era he did and having been in SigInt. I’m tempted to find some local amateur radio operators and get some feedback. I will definitely check out your links and probably repost them soon maybe with interesting ham radio observations.
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Love the site – I want to point out that Nov 3 is not just the anniversary of the dedication of Kryptos and the date of the TUT find, but also the Berlin Accord where the world decided to use Morse code (SOS) as the standard form of emergency communication. It was a big deal. I’m also interested in steno keyboards since JS mentioned steno in K4. Top left (next to a small space) on most steno keyboards it the letter T. Old steno paper looks a bit like Kryptos.