My OperaWhat if K4 isn't K4? (And what if it's a OTP?)
Thursday, October 8, 2009 12:36:42 AM
I've discovered a few extra minor clues. As usual, they are subjective and may not be clues at all. But I'd be really surprised if they were all bogus. Some of them, I'm fairly certain about and if true could give a great deal of insight as to why K4 has never been decoded. Sanborn has said the last part would decode to about 100 characters. I like how he never uses the notation K4. It's always, the last 97 or 98 characters, or simply the "last part".
What is disturbing me is that I've gotten two clues that point to the exact same location. This is not unusual as far as the multiple clues is concerned. Sanborn does this everywhere. What has me troubled is the location where the clues are pointing at.
Here's a mindblowing thought. What if K4 isn't 97 or 98 characters? What if K4 doesn't start at OBKR, with or without question mark? What if K4 starts somewhere else?
The clues I've seen are telling me that K4 starts some characters BEFORE the question mark. It's possible these characters up to "halfway" through K4 need to be transformed before being used. For sure, K4 as a whole needs to be "filtered" before you can decode it. That much I know for certain and I know most of the steps involved in this filtering process. I've been able to retrieve exactly 100 characters to form this new K4. I'm not sure if it's right just yet as I haven't attempted to decoded it yet. But this new transformation had three clues laid out in plain view. One of them is confirmation that the transformation is correct (and as always, I could be interpreting this incorrectly). The second clue is telling me that it's linked in with the riddle at the end of K3. And right beside it, it says OTP. I know. I know. It's only three letters. But the alignment is uncanny. If it was just three letters on its own, I'd just discard it and move on. But I was led directly to this clue by way more than just those two other clues. Those two clues are simply what appears in this new transformation.
OTP = One Time Pad.
A few questions now appear.
1. Is this new transformation just a clue to get me the cipher? Or at least telling me that it's a one time pad (and I still have to find out the algorithm though I suspect I know what it is)?
2. If this new transformation isn't the true ciphertext, then what is? The original K4? Could be.
3. What and where is the one time pad? How do we obtain it? (I have a few ideas on this)
4. What is the algorithm? (I think I know this one).
Another thing that I'm suspecting is that the final message could be much shorter than 100 characters. I still think the first parts of K4 are decoded separately from the final message. So overall, you'd get 100 characters. By my calculations, if my idea works out, I would get about 90 characters. Not quite 100. So not sure if this disqualifies my idea or not. We'll see.
What is disturbing me is that I've gotten two clues that point to the exact same location. This is not unusual as far as the multiple clues is concerned. Sanborn does this everywhere. What has me troubled is the location where the clues are pointing at.
Here's a mindblowing thought. What if K4 isn't 97 or 98 characters? What if K4 doesn't start at OBKR, with or without question mark? What if K4 starts somewhere else?
The clues I've seen are telling me that K4 starts some characters BEFORE the question mark. It's possible these characters up to "halfway" through K4 need to be transformed before being used. For sure, K4 as a whole needs to be "filtered" before you can decode it. That much I know for certain and I know most of the steps involved in this filtering process. I've been able to retrieve exactly 100 characters to form this new K4. I'm not sure if it's right just yet as I haven't attempted to decoded it yet. But this new transformation had three clues laid out in plain view. One of them is confirmation that the transformation is correct (and as always, I could be interpreting this incorrectly). The second clue is telling me that it's linked in with the riddle at the end of K3. And right beside it, it says OTP. I know. I know. It's only three letters. But the alignment is uncanny. If it was just three letters on its own, I'd just discard it and move on. But I was led directly to this clue by way more than just those two other clues. Those two clues are simply what appears in this new transformation.
OTP = One Time Pad.
A few questions now appear.
1. Is this new transformation just a clue to get me the cipher? Or at least telling me that it's a one time pad (and I still have to find out the algorithm though I suspect I know what it is)?
2. If this new transformation isn't the true ciphertext, then what is? The original K4? Could be.
3. What and where is the one time pad? How do we obtain it? (I have a few ideas on this)
4. What is the algorithm? (I think I know this one).
Another thing that I'm suspecting is that the final message could be much shorter than 100 characters. I still think the first parts of K4 are decoded separately from the final message. So overall, you'd get 100 characters. By my calculations, if my idea works out, I would get about 90 characters. Not quite 100. So not sure if this disqualifies my idea or not. We'll see.
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