Comment on Is Kryptos a Cryptex? by kryptosfan
And thus begins my head-shaking efforts to understand a duck pond
View ArticleComment on The Kryptos Cryptex by kryptosfan
It’s interesting that he calls them his “projection cylinders”. And I’m still not a Dan Brown fan.
View ArticleComment on I’d like pictures of the Kryptos Pond by kryptosfan
Originally a pond, ducks came later…
View ArticleComment on Clues to solving Kryptos by kryptosfan
should be “were removed” instead of “was removed”
View ArticleComment on K1 and Abscissa by kryptosfan
I suppose there’s multiple ways to find palimpsest in the Morse and abscissa in K1 but I’m not sure how anyone could or would know how to retrieve them short of try everything, all at once!
View ArticleComment on Kryptos Fractionation by kryptosfan
Fractionation would have been perfect, yes, but can be ignored because NYPVTT=BERLIN
View ArticleComment on A fine cipher by kryptosfan
Affine isn’t that bad of an idea as a primitive predecessor to something that could actually have been used on K4. The whole idea of formulaic ciphering that ties in modular arithmetic isn’t the worst...
View ArticleComment on Doubling up by kryptosfan
Turns out, no, no there isn’t transposition (NYPVTT=BERLIN)
View ArticleComment on Playing fair with K4 by kryptosfan
Ahhh, but no transposition is allowed… (NYPVTT=BERLIN) Maybe Playfair after masking but pointless to attempt it before.
View ArticleComment on Mr. Sanders by kryptosfan
Post after post, word after word that didn’t actually get us any further along than we were…
View ArticleComment on T is your position by kryptosfan
In a much more recent video, Dunin explains that she asked Sanborn and it’s actually “What is your position”. It’s just that part of it is under the rock.
View ArticleComment on Kryptos Morse Quote by kryptosfan
Ok, looking back on it, neither the Morse code phrases or the actual copperplate text seem to be worth the effort it took to decipher them.
View ArticleComment on Finding BERLIN at the CIA by kryptosfan
I heard that the CIA did get that piece of the wall but then hired professional graffiti artists to decorate it.
View ArticleComment on Help or Criticisms Needed by kryptosfan
Thank God I finally started putting pictures in the posts…
View ArticleComment on Sanborn’s Clue Allows Known-Plaintext Attack by kryptosfan
Turns out you were right!
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