You are going the wrong way. Jim sanborn basically gave away the answer to the encryption algorithm when he mentioned doorways,unfolding,and using k4 in his quotes. To go through the doorway,you fold the kryptos tableau onto the cipher text panel. Gary Warzin has pointed out how the kr in obkr and the yp in nypvtt match exactly on the cipher panel position and the tableau panel position in k4. Next, kryptos will be backwards. Applying k3s instructions to the tableau creates the CANDLE. Next, kryptos will be closed with the cipher panel at the front and the tableau at the back. The underlying tableau will be the end of the original tableau aligning with k4 CT. So the actual middle-like text will be the underlying tableau. Oh wait unfolding is the way the sculptures panels move. That tells you it’s being deciphered. SO use the underlying tableau as a running key with the words kryptos and kryptos in a quagmire III. Note: the last part is uncertain as can be, but the running key is my only thought. It might be something else, but I’m pretty sure Jim gave us what to put the running key on. Remember that NOVA episode? On a 42 by 8 matrix, Jim sanborn labeled four rows cipher text with the pattern PCPCPCPC. It is as well as solved now.
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