Comment on Kryptos by bonnie bourgini
Comment on Morse Code Translation by June
Shadow Forces Lucid Memory Virtually Invisible Request Your Digital Interpretation Is Your Position
Comment on K3 by Devin
I see many interesting articles here. Your website can go viral easily, you need some initial traffic only.
How to get initial traffic? Search google for:
Jemensso’s tricks
Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by LouisaJ
I am not a cryptologist (much) but from what I have read about Kryptos, the K4 section plain text will say something like:
…found at the base of a Berlin Clock…
which will then link in with the whole plan to go looking for something in the grounds of Langley. And there’s a compass rose in the grounds of Langley and that big clock in Berlin.
Thinking backwards. The Samborn guy would have plotted the whole thing backwards.
So, as I am not a cryptologist but a pair of fresh eyes, maybe some of you guys and girls will play around with that phase and crack it. (I hope)
Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by LouisaJ
PS: Walter Womacka oversaw the Urania Clock in Alexanderplatz.
WW was also a sculpturist so maybe Samborn took inspiration from him?
Comment on Kryptos by LouisaJ
Use the DRYAD system…
Comment on Not Sure How to Tell When Masking Technique Has Been Removed in Kryptos K4 by Joffy
I assigned points to each letter based off of how often it is used. Rare letters are a lot of points, and common letters are low. I forget the formula but I end up looking for a score in a certain range based off of different texts I have thrown in to calibrate it. Its pretty good at narrowing down large possibilities. However given K1-3 have X’s and Q’s thrown in liberally, I had to use a wider range which results in a lot more false positives.
Comment on Kryptos by SpideyFan
Hi, thanks for pointing this out! IMHO, a DRYAD-like system is certainly worth considering. It would nicely relate to the ENDYAR of K3, and it would also explain Jim Sanborn’s mentioning an ‘original matrix’, which could conceivably refer to the pad for the DRYAD system.
If a DRYAD variant is used, this seems to imply (if I’m not mistaken) that the ‘set letter’ is changed at least twice during encryption of BERLIN CLOCK. Question of course, would be how to derive the ‘original matrix’ in the first place, and where and how a change of the set letter is indicated. There are myriads (dryads?) of possibilities how Jim Sanborn could have adapted the DRYAD system in this respect.
Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by Mark
This might only show some symmetry but here goes;
5, N+U=5
3 (N+Y) -U=R
2 P-U=E
6 U+R=N
4T-H=L
1 T+H=B
Berlin
1 M+U=H
H
3(M+Z) -R=U
2 F-R=L
5 P+U=K
4K-H=C
1W+H=C
CLUCK
A Berlin Clock is an URH so I only used those letters to get;
Berlin H Cluck ???
Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by Mark
To explain this further I think it must be Berlin U cluck (?)
the symmetry between the 2 groups of six letters is strong
I added UUURHH to N(N+Y)PVTT and HRRUHH to M(M+Z) FPKW
The signs for both were +,-,-,+,-,+
the letter order was important
5,3,2,6,4,1 for Berlin and 1,3,2,5,4,1 for U and cluck
ie 53’26.41” and 13’25.41” which is near Berlin!
and again the letters UHR spells clock in German
This doesn’t solve the rest of K-4 but I think Urania clock might be right
Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by Diogenes
Im lost. I get the symmetry, using TWT as the middle, right? But those co-ordinates just point to farmland not actually that close to berlin. But the compass points to those coordinates pretty closely (its hard to tell with that kind of distance). But what kind of cipher does this indicate? It can’t be rotational like k3 (the letter frequencies dont meet). So Quagmire III? Maybe the plaintext of k4 is in German? Letter frequencies actually really close…
Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by Mark
I think it is two segments of six letters unfortunately, i also think it’s just a local phenomenon, in other words the solution for the whole thing is different.and if it’s farmland maybe the mispelling of clock as cluck is right (?) I haven’t been able to see the Urania clock either that must be some kind of help (unless there is another clock that starts with U
Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by Diogenes
Well, in german all clocks start with ‘U’. The german word for clock is “Uhr”, (Which is not the passphrase for a QIII(I checked using kryptos as the alphabet key)). The numbers pointing to co-ordinates in Germany is a coincidence, and im sure must be a part of K5. I think that using TWT as the center, and using the numbers indicated by the letter pairs down to UHU and up to OXO, that gives either six or nine numbers. I think the doubled and palindromes are the key. It would be simple, having the key formatted within the cipher.
But, the TT pair is supposed to be part of the ‘BERLIN’ ciphertext. maybe the “second layer X” from K2 is directing us to this? the pairs are the key and the plaintext? explains why nothing matches.
After all, K2 is universal shorthand for “key to”
I think that we should not ignore the potential that k4 is in German adding a third level
Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by Mark
Some people think Dan Brown helped Jim. On his book cover he put the “wrong ” degrees for Kryptos 37 instead of 38. which would correspond to 53 instead of the correct 52 for Berlin. This would explain that. PS there was a Math guy who posted using knot theory, that the palindromes and double letters were added in.
Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by Diogenes
Dan Brown has nothing to do with this. Da Vinci Code came out several years after Kryptos. and Brown has never had interaction with CIA. Absolutely impossible
Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by Diogenes
And what math guy?
Comment on Kryptos by Diogenes
Have you tried logarithms?
https://xkcd.com/451/
Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by Mark
maybe that was right what I had Berlin had UHR , so what would Washington DC have? SEX apparently
A+X=W
T+S=A
J+E=O
K+X=I
L-X=N
U+X=S
(D+I)-E=H
A+S=T
W-S=D
I+E=N
N+S=G
(F+B)-E=C
These are the letters preceding Berlin and seem to get “Washington DC”
Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by Mark
I’m seeing a real problem here tho
Clock was the clue to decifer nypvtt, but if I’m right it should be nzpvtt-my ?
There were 4 SEX’s to get Washington DC and there should be 2 UHR’s to bet Berlin(?)
and the following letters don’t say clock MZFPKW
Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by Mark
For MZFPKWG I got Moskva using the nick name “OZ”
M+Z=M
Z+O=O
F+Z=V (in Russian F=V)
P=O=A
K+Z=K
(W+G) +O=S
Moskva or Moscow