Parasystole, Standing Waves

Known as ponderingman on YouTube, this Kryptos new-comer suggests that the raised letters YA and R are markers referring to the plaintext characters in those same positions.

Those letters would be WL and D from the following:

SLOWLYDESPARATLYSLOWLY

Furthermore, he suggests a reason for the misspelling of DESPERATELY.  By removing the W, L, and D (raised letters) from the plaintext, we get a possible new keyword, if somewhat out of order:

SLOYESPARAT…

…PARASYSTOLE

Jim’s talks about standing waves and layers gives this idea some credence.

Phantom Key in the Water?

A significant clue to solving K3 may be discovered by looking into the whirlpool at the base of the Kryptos Tableau.  Sanborn mentioned in his 1989 letter to CIA Agency employees that he “also uses another symbol; water.  In a small pool on the plaza, partly surrounded by the copper plate, water will be turbulent and provocative…”  He later describes this movement of water as representative of the dissemination of information.  Water is central to the composition of his work.  “…between two massive outcroppings, water will be calm, reflective, contemplative.”

What would one see when peering into the swirling water?  If the surface is reflective, a phantom image would appear inside the well.  Depending on the viewer’s angle, either the Vigenere Tableau or the Kryptos ciphertext would appear as though it were inside this basin.  It would also have the appearance of some force attempting to twist or turn the text.

We now know that k3 is a rotational transposition.  Does this mean an agent in the field would be trained to discover a key or method by peering into water?  Looking into the whirlpool, a tableau appears to start turning.  What is reflected in the calm “reflection pool?”  Is there a key in that coy pond?  Consistent with the theme of Kryptos, the images appearing in the mirror-like surface of water gives the illusion that an alternate space exists below that surface — a space that doesn’t exist except through the antipodes of that which exists above it.  Could the water be drained from these containment areas, no phantom would exist.

K3:

ENDyaHrOHNLSRHEOCPTEOIBIDYSHNAIA
CHTNREYULDSLLSLLNOHSNOSMRWXMNE
TPRNGATIHNRARPESLNNELEBLPIIACAE
WMTWNDITEENRAHCTENEUDRETNHAEOE
TFOLSEDTIWENHAEIOYTEYQHEENCTAYCR
EIFTBRSPAMHNEWENATAMATEGYEERLB
TEEFOASFIOTUETUAEOTOARMAEERTNRTI
BSEDDNIAAHTTMSTEWPIEROAGRIEWFEB
AECTDDHILCEIHSITEGOEAOSDDRYDLORIT
RKLMLEHAGTDHARDPNEOHMGFMFEUHE
ECDMRIPFEIMEHNLSSTTRTVDOHW

Pad to 24 x 14 and rotate clockwise 90 degrees:

DAEGIFWQEWRNDEMGGRBIEHONAOYNRTOI
SONEEDRHSDIDEEETAETIPSHyPHAWDU
TNFTENNaFAOFDEACOESOAHERSENTMTL
ELSIrIDDBIUAASNNMAOMPDAAATYERN
RCHENREAEECDAEWHNHEYCHOGRTHLXTLN
ODTTTYEICEMNSLHLDTOEIWTBNRRSMO
DMAEFEELEEHSGRHSRRTNNPTYETFIITML
BHEIPUOTMTLEABRAUIRLCRFRCWETSED
ANDPTEKEPEEPIRCGSTVULIIREAOEAALED
HMHETFMYTETLOOELSRNOHTNWISIHE
EIORANEHMHLBWCHTATSEYATNLI

Pad into 8 columns, then rotate 90 degrees clockwise again:

SLOWLYDESPARATLYSLOWLYTHEREMAINS
OFPASSAGEDEBRISTHATENCUMBEREDT
HELOWERPArTOFTHEDOORWAYWASREMOV
EDWITHTREMBLINGHANDSIMADEATINY
BREACNINTHEUPPERLEFTHANDCORNERAN
DTHENWIDENINGTHEHOLEALITTLEIIN
SERTEDTHECANDLEANDPEEREDINTHEHOT
AIRESCAPINGFROMTHECHAMBERCaUSED
THEFLAMETOFLICKERBUTPRESENTLYDETA
ILSOFTHEROOMWITHINEMERGEDFROM
THEMISTXCANYOUSEEANyTHINGQ

Details of the Room Within

Details of the room within emerged from the mist x can you see anything Q?

-k3

Details of the room within emerged from the missed X?  The missed X, when put back in, reveals “Layer Two.”  Can you see anything Q?

A mask layer with holes at the X’s reveals an answer to this question when placed over the breached Q in the upper left-hand corner.  The underlying characters are YES QQQ.

Can you see anything Q? Yes QQQ.

This masking technique may explain why K2 is worded so strangely — the official explanation being that it was designed to sound like a Morse Code transmission.  Could it be that k2 was forced after a mask was used to position characters at certain locations in the ciphertext?

Gary Warzin’s Palimpsest Theory

Gary Warzin’s 2001 Palimpsest Theory has been reproduced as a permanent mirror (in memoriam) at KryptosRevisited.com!

Discover how this Kryptos enthusiast used Jim Gillogly’s CIA Sculpture report in conjunction with Simon Singh’s “The Code Book” to develop a theory about K4.  Warzin claims that Kryptos is a physical palimpsest with underlying alphabet characters from the Vigenere Tableau peeking through.

http://www.kryptosrevisited.com/sculpture/solutions/gary-warzin.asp

CNN B-Roll Transcript (June 2005)

A previously concealed B-Roll transcript from CNN Interviews in June 2005 has been made available at KryptosRevisited.com.  The transcript was compiled and edited by CNN’s Justine Redman (producer) and Elonka Dunin.

Sanborn discusses details of his CIA Sculpture “Kryptos,” and reveals new information about clues leading up to K4.  He also discloses actual techniques and concepts about k4, noting how it might fit in to the rest of the puzzle.

Read the original transcript here.

Certain to be Worth Your Time

The kryptos.info network is comprised of facts, promising conjecture, and inspirational entertainment as it relates to Jim Sanborn’s CIA Sculpture, Kryptos.  Although kryptos.info, kryptosrevisited.com, and realmoftwelve.net are not a part of a formal partnership with other contributing web sites and discussion forums, the concept of the kryptos.info network includes the latest favorable ideas from outside sources.  Here are a few new ones:

ninetysevenletters.wordpress.com (blog)

kryptoswiki.com (now live!)

apexofkryptos.wordpress.com (blog)

The “APEX” of Kryptos (theory/orientation to logical matrix manipulation)

No Final Conclusions; K4 Remains Unsolved!

I’m going to skip ahead here, and answer some questions, because this original announcement has been hyped up to a point that has unwittingly sparked some serious frustration within many people.  This has taken the joy right out of what I have been planning to do, and I realize my blunder in timing.  My announcement came too soon before the video was released, and failing to specify how long the wait would be was the only real crime here.  The announcement was originally meant to be made within several days (not hours or minutes), and so my deepest apologies for not reiterating that detail in my announcement about an announcement.  Nothing has changed from what I’ve said – there is a new Kryptos discovery that will be detailed within a few days (presently in production).  It will be released in the form of an animated video and a corresponding article.  Again, this announcement pertains to a layer of Kryptos that is not presently considered to be a part of K4.  There certainly has been no claim of final resolution from this author, so by all means keep going!!

I have been working on a video (I referred to it as skilled manipulation in a previous post; perhaps a poor, yet typical choice of words from this author) that depicts what I believe to be the ultimate palimpsest.  Be careful not to jump to conclusions about this.  The very nature of what I am talking about is extremely difficult to imagine.  As it stands right now, we have a limited definition of “palimpsest” and I’ll state openly that if you’re visualizing Archimede’s version, you’ve played into the illusion as planned.

The story that lead to this belief (that’s all it is at this point) was originally not connected to Kryptos.  A Moroccan tile artist emailed me several months ago about something she saw in Kryptos, and so as a faithful co-enthusiast, I looked.  I was stunned when I immediately saw something.  However, low and behold, she was not referring to Kryptos — but an entirely different work of art by a different artist from a different era.  I couldn’t confirm her findings, and I subsequently dismissed my own impression about Kryptos as coincidence.

During my normal Kryptos persuits, I discovered a work by a prominent fiction writer from the 1920’s.  His name is Howard – no relation to the Howard Carter of 1922 we are all familiar with.  This is Howard Phillips Lovecraft.  He wrote a story called “Memory” that seems to speak of a sense of time when advanced intelligences could not in hindsight distinguish the difference between man and monkey.

…The Genie that haunts the moonbeams spake to the Demon of the Valley, saying, “I am old, and forget much. Tell me the deeds and aspect and name of them who built these things of Stone.” And the Demon replied, “I am Memory, and am wise in lore of the past, but I too am old. These beings were like the waters of the river Than, not to be understood. Their deeds I recall not, for they were but of the moment. Their aspect I recall dimly, it was like to that of the little apes in the trees. Their name I recall clearly, for it rhymed with that of the river. These beings of yesterday were called Man.”

So the Genie flew back to the thin horned moon, and the Demon looked intently at a little ape in a tree that grew in a crumbling courtyard.

H P Lovecraft also wrote “The Shadow Out of Time,” which seems to speak of Kryptos.  The story is about pseudo-memory as a possible antithesis to lucid-memory.  And then there is “The Dunwich Horror” which makes reference to a Savant named Wilbur Whateley who developed a puzzle using Vigenere and Matrices.  Dunwich was terrorized by invisible forces (see wikipedia article).  There is reference to an inner city between the two magnetic poles and something called the “DHO-HNA” formula, coincidentally reminding me of “antipodes” and DHO and HNA in the first line of the ciphertext of k3.  I digress with DHO being the letters surrounding that infamous YAR.

This ultimately is a rabbit trail that brings me to the reason for my recent dramatic announcement.  One of those stories inspired me to take a second look at what I thought I had seen several months ago as a tip-off from that Moroccan tile artist.  I say this now with complete confidence, that H P Lovecraft is in no way connected to Kryptos.  I have no reason to think that Jim Sanborn would have used this prominent fiction writer.  It is coincidence, and to suggest anything else without any tangible information is delusional.  Merely interesting parallels of which there are countless as we all know.

Regarding my announcement and the sudden betrayal several people found themselves feeling, no authority has genuinely given me the “go ahead” and no one has endorsed my ideas.  The claim about being chosen was going to be revealed in the video as part of my own slant and point in illusion on this legitimate discovery I made (not yet specifically referenced anywhere).  I’m clearing this up, because of the numerous reactions before I could tell the story.  In light of the seriousness of the claim and my credibility being somewhat at stake in the face of a few frightening emails from my own peers, I am going to recant this, and I may incorporate the purpose of it at a more appropriate time.  It is important to me that what I show you is simple, factual, and free from my own interpretation.  This isn’t completely possible, but I will treat the presentation professionally, which you have come to expect from this blog and my related materials.

Obviously, it is my job to hype up anything that is a decent possibility as it pertains to Kryptos.  This is what I do.  This is what I have been doing for years.  The facts and theories (have you seen my “did Sanborn sign Kryptos?“) are at the heart of my web site.  Let’s clear that intention up first.  My discovery is not K4.  I have not solved K4. I have not claimed that I have solved K4, and I kindly ask that if anyone thinks otherwise or has mispoken about this that they help me clear up the issue.  It has instigated widespread panic in people who are trying to solve it.  I like suspense.  I like to have fun with illusions, exaggerations, and dangerous implications… but I also respect genuine resolution.  Being the author of “k4 syndrome,” I am careful about what I say, and live for delivering genuine, fresh content.  I want to go above and beyond with my skills because it’s beneficial to the Kryptos community and I enjoy doing it.

1) What I believe to be buried out there is a palimpsest.  This may not be an original idea.  Again, this has not been confirmed or endorsed by anyone.  I believe Langley should know about this but that they don’t.

2) In light of what I will be showing via my new animated video next week is an interpretation of the deciphered plain text as it relates to this new discovery.  Again, I am not sure whether the interpretation is original or whether it originated in someone else’s fascinating studies (such as Dr. Randy Thompson’s).  I will show you what is buried.  I will specifically show you the item I’m calling the new palimpsest.

3) I will show you what the coordinates point to, exactly.  The steganography, as many people have suggested, in this part of the solution is the wording of the plain text itself.  In fact, I can not count the number of people who have suggested this very thing and thought it to be their original work.  I certainly won’t pretend to have been the first to have come up with it.  What I will propose is what that plain text means in this particular new layer of Kryptos.  What do the coordinates mean?  I will show you.

4) “It was totally invisible.  How’s that possible?  They used the earth’s magnetic field…”  I want to explain what this means in light of the palimpsest discovery.  Like my Leonardo discovery from several years back, once you see the chalice, you always see the chalice.  That chalice is a steganographic message.  I’m trying to be specific without ruining the potential surprise.  However, this discovery is questionable and subject to as much doubt as the disparate chalice discovery.  There will be believers and there will be doubters.  I think that with the story of Kryptos thus far, we are intelligent enough to accept what Jim Sanborn did out there on the CIA grounds behind everyone’s backs.  I’m also prepared to hear, “no, that’s not it,” in which case I will promptly abandon the idea.

5) I will explain the meaning of what information was gathered and transmitted underground.  The exact place is unknown, and so this is a discrepancy from my previous post.  However, I will explain what it means.  I will tell you where, exactly I have been told this place is.

6) The ultimate lesson for the CIA that will likely not change personalities as Sanborn hoped but will cause them to think a little about how Jim Sanborn carried out this act and got away with it for twenty years.  That’s what this discovery is about.  The story doesn’t begin at the dedication ceremony.  It began long before, and part of the Kryptos puzzle includes the history and drama involved in its planning and installation.

The chance event will have to wait for further explanation.  To those waiting, please be patient.  I will do my best to not disappoint you with these things and to give the best showmanship you deserve.  This is not a hoax, but please do not make this out to be “the finale” in the sense that it’s over and done with.  Hardly!  I believe this to be a minor step of progress.

It is big, though.  Very big.  In what way, you’ll soon find out.

Hope this helps, and please don’t bury me over my enthusiasm.  This is supposed to be fun… for everyone…

and it is!

-gary

Disinformation or Lazy Maintenance?

Many rumours about Kryptos flood the Internet.  It is difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction when it comes to the sculpture, especially to those who have only recently been exposed to it.  A new document entitled “Misconceptions” at KryptosRevisited.com will attempt to track some of the more widespread claims about Kryptos and distinguish truth from deception through articles and sources directly produced from James Sanborn’s own words.  Much of the disinformation about the sculpture — or Misinformation — is not a product of intentional misdirection, rather it is often attributed to earlier perceptions of Kryptos that has since become outdated or reformed in light of more precise focus over time.

For example, Kryptos Part Three (k3), is commonly understood to be encoded by a Triple or Keyed Columnar Transposition.  A decade ago, that was anyone’s best guess, and it seemed elegant at the time.  Since then, a much simpler, artistic cipher called a Double Rotation Transposition has been demonstrated to also be the solution to that part of the code, and it makes the old technique seem overly-complicated and confusing.  This is one such example of new information that is difficult to discover online because of the overwhelming number of references to outdated material.

One way to stay abreast of new information is to subscribe to the kryptos.info network blog RSS feed (comments can also be subscribed on an individual-article basis through the web site) and to bookmark KryptosRevisited.com as your up-to-date source for Kryptos Sculpture information.  We know you’re busy cracking the code, so we’ll make sure you’re informed with the latest breaking news and discoveries.

Gary Phillips writes about Kryptos, the sculpture at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, at his web site KryptosRevisited.com.

Sanborn’s Kryptos Sculpture Transcripts

The Kryptos Copperplate Transcript is available at KryptosRevisited.com.  The ciphertext as it appears on the copper scroll and the plain text discovered using Vigenère (first two parts) and Transposition (third part) are now available with easy copy and paste capabilities.  Spacing has been omitted in the plain text transcripts to minimize the introduction of interpretation error.  The layout of the plain text as it coincides withs its corresponding ciphertext is properly represented and is difficult to find elsewhere online.  The tableau is also depicted backward, as is in the sculpture.

Kryptos Copperplate Ciphertext (left panel)

Kryptos Copperplate Tableau (right panel)

Kryptos Copperplate Plain Text (decrypted using Vigenere and Matrix Rotational Transposition)