Krypto is a Comic Book super character
King Clock is a Comic Book Super Character
Captain Berlin is also a Comic Book Super Character..
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Comment on K4 by madhatter
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Comment on Jim Sanborn Answers Kryptos Questions by Chad Burke
Is the answer submission site active, I need the link. I may have put this thing to bed.
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Comment on Jim Sanborn Answers Kryptos Questions by Vic
Congrats!
I think the submission site was shut down.
Why not post what you have here?
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Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by chris
Is that a pool of water under the 4th section? Wouldn’t that create a reflection? Maybe the location coordinates apply to a viewing position and time of day, and only the parts outside of the shadow it casts on itself are used?
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Comment on Intermission by Richard McBroom
Just realized that letters in K4 purported to be Berlin Clock correspond to “R HID THAT” in the Luke 12:2 (KJV) text; and the lines that follow in Luke reveal an error in my version (unknown by me until now) that makes everything fit: “SHALL NOT BE BE KNOWN.” (Spooky time travel and mind control that I have stated all along involved.)
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Comment on Kryptos by SpideyFan
Hi KryptosFan, it would be really cool if you came back and continued your blog!
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Comment on K4 by Marcus Aurelius
K4 solution
It is a symbolic geographic location
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Comment on Kryptos by PhilippeH
There is no evidence to support this hypothesis. I see the C in UAUEKCAR as being, in fact, the second “C” in the word “cloCk”. I let you devise the way to get to this, implies the use of yet another clue (massthewax) and understand to what it refers.
But you are right when you try to make use of the “layertwo” clue, it is probably the most important of all…
>>>>>>>>>>>>> To KryptosFan :
Your site was the best designed on this topic, by far, much better than Elonka’s one. If you are still interested in this quest, maybe could we share some information and have a bit of brainstorming ?
I think many people quickly got out of the step by not showing respect to the (fairly simple) constraints :
* it has been done with a pencil and a paper, it is crackable the same way
* the clues are ALL in plain sight, and NO clue serve another purpose than cracking K4. This implies that NO part of any PT (K1 -> K3) contain any clue.
* K4 is most probably made of two distinct parts (easy to see where to cut, knowing that “when the wise man points at the moon, the imbecile examines the finger”)
* A transposition is involved (double one AFAIK *2 *2) or can be replaced nicely by a skip just as in K3.
* Kryptos is NOT the only alphabet you have to consider (TBLASTXTHIS :p)
* there is no “error” in the design, even IQLUSION has its own purpose (easy to prove, still difficult to figure its proper use).
* K4 is not a Vigenere, nor Quag II -> Quag IV. There is another layer of encryption (masking) involved, the only one that I cannot figure (at all) at this point. 😦
* BERLIN & CLOCK are part of the PT, they are NO CLUES (their meaning is pointless, at least).
* I would not be very surprised if the next clue was to be HOMOGEN at position 85. Maybe around 20 Nov. 2018 ?
To put it in other words, I made some interesting discoveries which are far from delirant, but I am seriously stuck in a dead end not knowing the masking technique (just as you). At this time, I turn to steganography, even if it is not precisely my cup of tea (I hate it just as every cryptographer hates anagrams).
You have now my e-mail address, in case.
Philippe
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Comment on Kryptos by Vic
I agree about the constraints. So many people get off on these abstract theories that just don’t make sense when one considers the techniques used in the previous sections.
I suspect that different techniques are used periodically in K4. There are lots of patterns. For example, you can add NFB (characters preceding NYP) to NYP and get BER, it also works for MZF + PK to get CK, and possibly the following W.
The duplicate letters L and C ciphertext differ by their distances from each other, suggesting a simple substitution.
Some groups of 3 characters, particularly from the crib area can be found in the previous sections of cipher text in a pattern related to the raised characters.
Probably all coincidental. 🙂
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Comment on K4 by Adrien Loridan
When i said you’ve missed out something,
WATCH X’s !
look at the picture => https://imgur.com/a/bSf9yyc
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Comment on Speculations by Adrien Loridan
When i said you’ve missed out something,
WATCH X’s !
look at the picture => https://imgur.com/a/bSf9yyc
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Comment on K3 Solution #3 by James Colmer
What I can offer in regard to K4 is this: The BERLINCLOCK section directly relates back to the first 11 letters of K1. When you repeat those 11 letters, the alignment against K4 at the NYPVTTMZFPK section is RFAEMUFPHZL. Using a keyed Vigeneire table with the Kryptos alphabet, and nothing else, you get the following letter sequences decoded – CWBYAHUQNBL, MIZCEALCULK, ELYOIECBAQK and of course BERLINCLOCK.
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Comment on Kryptos F2P: Berlin Clock by William Warwick
Maybe Sanborn got that from the song..
In a flood of T ears
That no one really ever heard fall at all
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Comment on Double Letters as K4 Demarcations? by James C
k4 firstly needs to be transposed before decryption, as the letters we know as K4 are merely placeholders. The correct cipher letters are: DFDKOPSJUGTHZGQYOSJLNBSKBICTKOKAKMUWKPPXECRFKJZBAAWWLLUSZLAURVO KDVBRQ XWWRT GIUESFBTHNTGZIQNUSTFIOQ
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Comment on Double Letters as K4 Demarcations? by James C
The keyletters therefore for BERLIN are MZULFR which are derived from the beginning of K1
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Comment on Intermission by Richard McBroom
“DJT” equals?
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Comment on Kryptos by BREAKER
K4 was cracked by Ian James Colmer, who submitted the partial solution to JS. confirming the strand he extracted.
Basically he laid the ciphertext of K4 across the edges of a tabula recta, then entered the ciphertext of K1-K3 as the body of the tabula, and then used a series of abscissas to chart the locations of the plaintext to extract……finding the solution from a final complication shown in detail step by step.
Seeing the Green Blob on the Red Rock being from Vermont, and the Tabula taking the shape of the Masonic Temple of Burlington as the Blueprint for the cipher, I later added to it, to identify the building the tableau was shaped to mimic. The Abscissa in the corner of K4 also said VT but the whole puzzle had to be adjusted to deliver the configuration for the flips to Layer Two…. identifying one suspect in their tell all reveal.
Explained in detail here:
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Comment on Brute Anagramming by starkid
I think it will have modulus in it. In my opinion, that clock in Berlin works modularly.
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Comment on K4 by daddy plaid
In plane site…. #cartesian
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Comment on Tracking Sanborn’s Bronze Marker by DaddyPlaid
This crosshair is exactly how my method for solving K4 works!
But no one will verify my method.
Take a look at my pinned tweet.
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