Comment on Classic Steganography by Zac S
I’ve finally wrote an excel sheet that explains all the steps with the grids to follow along. I’ll email it to whoever wants it.
View ArticleComment on Classic Steganography by kryptosfan
Sounds good, send it to me if you don’t mind it getting re-posted
View ArticleComment on Timescape and KryptosFreak by oaxx
I’ve seen the “DISPARATELY” possibility mentioned before, e.g., here: http://my.opera.com/KrazyKryptos/blog/2012/07/07/possible-k4-alphabet-revealed Where there is a Hat/Tip (acknowledgment) to Gary (I...
View ArticleComment on Kryptos Keywords by oaxx
How are you so sure about the keywords for k4? I’m not sure KRYPTOS will definitely be one, and any word having to do with masking is speculation.
View ArticleComment on Kryptos Keywords by kryptosfan
It’s just opinion. All we can really do is guess at this point. I haven’t seen any really convincing arguments about how we were supposed to know palimpsest and abscissa beforehand so I looked at it...
View ArticleComment on Timescape and KryptosFreak by kryptosfan
Speaking of misspellings and random letters, remember the dangling L on the keyed alphabet? Anyone been over to the wikipedia page lately? “One of the lines of the tableau is one character too long,...
View ArticleComment on Kryptos Variant Beaufort by Zac S by oaxx
Actually, let me be more specific. I calculate less than a 5% chance of finding something like this if you tried various widths (not just 30). Is there any other reason to choose size 30 ? It makes a...
View ArticleComment on Kryptos Variant Beaufort by Zac S by KryptosFreak
GAAAAAAAH! Please stop looking for freaking VIGENERE’s! Good god! Vigenere’s have been done over and over! The vigenere’s are DEAD! D-E-A-D! DEEEAAAAAAAAAD! Six feet under! Look for something else!...
View ArticleComment on Timescape and KryptosFreak by KryptosFreak
Uh, please define disparately. I don’t think it’s a word.
View ArticleComment on Timescape and KryptosFreak by kryptosfan
It’s the adverb form of disparate which means “fundamentally distinct or different in kind”. “Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden’s leaks, although disparately revealed, have had similar political and...
View ArticleComment on Kryptos, section 3, Jim Sanborn’s notes by Seth K
I can confirm the origin is the NOVA show, I took this screenshot myself and I believe you took it from my blog. I could not derive anything useful from it. There were other glimpses of his papers but...
View ArticleComment on Kryptos Variant Beaufort by Zac S by oaxx
There’s a very prominent part of the sculpture that seems to say Vigenere is important.
View ArticleComment on Kryptos Variant Beaufort by Zac S by Zac S
To KrytosFreak- You don’t have to call this cipher Vigenere. Call it a varient Beaufort cipher. Its interesting to note that the Y-A-R in K3 can also be solved with this cipher and results in the plain...
View ArticleComment on Timescape and KryptosFreak by oaxx
Regarding DESPARATLY / DISPARATELY, and I only mention this because I never thought of it until this thread, but that E/I substitution would not be the only one we’ve seen. So as not to be pointlessly...
View ArticleComment on Kryptos Variant Beaufort by Zac S by oaxx
That YAR/ABSCISSA = CIA observation is fantastic. Was that yours?
View ArticleComment on Kryptos Variant Beaufort by Zac S by taff3r
I like the idea, basically because the idea of a book cipher (or one-time pad based on a book) was also often suggested. And a text which is available for everyone is obviously K1-K3. I also noticed...
View ArticleComment on Is K4 a Castor Cipher? by taff3r
What if one cipher text letter stands for two possible plain text letters? Like an inverted Castor Cipher. Like this: http://oi43.tinypic.com/2hhg4uc.jpg And for the artsy touch the alphabet would...
View ArticleComment on Kryptos Variant Beaufort by Zac S by Zac S
Yes, I stumbled across it a while ago trying to decrypt YAR into something. The online cipher tool I was using was set to encrypt instead of decrypt and all of sudden I saw CIA as the result. I’ve...
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