us-tech.us Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Cracked it in 5 seconds. If you don't know what Kryptos is, read this. CIA website This is so funny. There's no coded messages there!!! Kryptos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 All well and good, except that the first three panels have been deciphered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos So the contention that nothing is encoded can't be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csmyth3025 Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 I'll have to agree with Swansont. I think your "solution" is a red herring offered up (somewhat tongue-in cheek) to those amateurs who think that the encryption is mostly "noise" (white, pink or otherwise). Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
us-tech.us Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 I'll have to agree with Swansont. I think your "solution" is a red herring offered up (somewhat tongue-in cheek) to those amateurs who think that the encryption is mostly "noise" (white, pink or otherwise). Chris Well, let's have a look at the supposed solutions. (Has Jim Sanborn agreed to these solutions? Not really!!!) Solution 1: "BETWEEN SUBTLE SHADING AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT LIES THE NUANCE OF IQLUSION." - Nuance of Iqlusion??? That makes no sense. And is that a typo? Solution 2: "IT WAS TOTALLY INVISIBLE HOWS THAT POSSIBLE ? THEY USED THE EARTHS MAGNETIC FIELD X THE INFORMATION WAS GATHERED AND TRANSMITTED UNDERGRUUND TO AN UNKNOWN LOCATION X DOES LANGLEY KNOW ABOUT THIS ? THEY SHOULD ITS BURIED OUT THERE SOMEWHERE X WHO KNOWS THE EXACT LOCATION ? ONLY WW THIS WAS HIS LAST MESSAGE X THIRTY EIGHT DEGREES FIFTY SEVEN MINUTES SIX POINT FIVE SECONDS NORTH SEVENTY SEVEN DEGREES EIGHT MINUTES FORTY FOUR SECONDS WEST X LAYER TWO" - Undergruund? Type? So, a commissioned sculptor leaves typos in a piece of art? I seriously doubt it. Solution 3: "SLOWLY DESPARATLY SLOWLY THE REMAINS OF PASSAGE DEBRIS THAT ENCUMBERED THE LOWER PART OF THE DOORWAY WAS REMOVED WITH TREMBLING HANDS I MADE A TINY BREACH IN THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER AND THEN WIDENING THE HOLE A LITTLE I INSERTED THE CANDLE AND PEERED IN THE HOT AIR ESCAPING FROM THE CHAMBER CAUSED THE FLAME TO FLICKER BUT PRESENTLY DETAILS OF THE ROOM WITHIN EMERGED FROM THE MIST X CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING Q (?)" - Well that makes a lot of sense. And, yet another typo? Solution 4: Oops.. they don't have that yet. On the other hand, after 21 years, the CIA says they don't see any message there. Now I come along and say there is no message there. But, you guys are sharp. Don't let me sway you. Oh... BTW, read this FBI coded message: http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/march/cryptanalysis_032911 I cracked that one, too. The guy suffered from brain seizures and was keeping a record. DE 75 NCBE means his last episode was in December, 75 days into his medication, and "no cause before episode." Do you want to argue that one, too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Seems to me that adding deliberate misspellings to your code is a great way to slow down people trying to crack it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Didn't Sanborn confirm the solutions to parts 1-3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaled Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 the three first parts were already solved, and as far as I know, there is a group nowadays trying to break the fourth part ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doG Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 IMO this thread and every other post by us-tech.us is just spam for url deleted This thread was put here simply as an attempt to get clicks at url deleted I'd ban the user as a spammer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophiolite Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Seems to me that adding deliberate misspellings to your code is a great way to slow down people trying to crack it. I understand that is a common practice along with odd grammar that is still intelligible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 IMO this thread and every other post by us-tech.us is just spam for url deleted This thread was put here simply as an attempt to get clicks at url deleted I'd ban the user as a spammer. But then you'd have to be banned, too, for posting those links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doG Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 But then you'd have to be banned, too, for posting those links. Well that's peculiar. One of those links you've deleted from my post still stands in the OP. I'd quote that post but then I'd be reposting the link you deleted from me posy huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybender Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 It looks like letters wrote on matter. I might be really smart and prosperous if I solve a rubix cube, am I right? IQ illusion prophaghanda or hyped up words to make something seem different than it really is sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOSEPH from SPAIN Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 Hello from Spain I have a good solution for the last message of the sculpture, but I have not used a code.I've only used the art of deduction according to the clues left by the sculptor According to Occam's razor, the simplest solution to the mystery of the fourth and final message of the sculpture is this: iF Letters 64-69 "NYPVTT" = "BERLIN" then K4 can be: ".....PEOPLE TO CREATE A SAFER FREER WORLD AND SURELY THERE IS NO BETTER PLACE THAN BERLIN THE MEETING PLACE OF EAST AND WEST." — By Ronald Reagan, address at the Brandenburg Gate, June 12, 1987. Because if K4 is a real text (like K3), then i should find key phrases/quotes related to Berlin (place). I look for the most important and beautiful texts (Kennedy & Reagan speeches) And here I found this fragment:http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganbrandenburggate.htm He said:“Today, thus, represents a moment of hope …….PEOPLE TO CREATE A SAFER, FREER WORLD AND SURELY THERE IS NO BETTER PLACE THAN BERLIN THE MEETING PLACE OF EAST AND WEST, to make a start.” SO, if K 3 has a question: ” …… can you see anythyngq?“. (The account of Howard Carter, the renowned Egyptologist, as he opened King Tut’stomb. --and breaking the WALL--)THEN K 4 has an beatiful answer “ People to create a safer, freer world ……..” ( Reagan speech at the Berlin WALL) This is a very nice/lovely solution but I have not a mathematical explanation. Maybe you can help me to solve the last problem: THE CODE. Bye Joseph from Spain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjvalen Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 I love how I click on “Solved” in a K4 forum but the author has zero research to offer... however, I’ll offer this: Vigenere passphrase: QKFELYOIECBA Pay attention to one known clue location: NYPVTTMZFPK Decrypt output(QKFELYOIECBA) EBHJTPNJYOGDHSNSXDPNFPCQYQBMDLBEUWWWPTBUZMRLKLLMPAMOCIJUTXIBZFVBERLINCLOCKEYNXQCNARPUGHDWNYSKLRKA So, it’s definitely possible... grabbed this using a Bruceforce technique after mapping positions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bufofrog Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 3 minutes ago, rjvalen said: EBHJTPNJYOGDHSNSXDPNFPCQYQBMDLBEUWWWPTBUZMRLKLLMPAMOCIJUTXIBZFVBERLINCLOCKEYNXQCNARPUGHDWNYSKLRKA Be sure and eat your Ovaltine?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjvalen Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 (edited) Lol... that’s what the K4 decrypted as.. that passphrase places BERLINCLOCK in correct clue positions given by Sanborn, also read an article that it was as easy as ABC, end of that passphrase is “CBA” Edited April 4, 2021 by rjvalen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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