My OperaNew Theory: Part I
Monday, August 23, 2010 9:08:46 PM
I don't have much time to spend on Kryptos anymore. So I'm going to reveal a new theory I've been working on lately. This is part I. Other parts will follow.
I think Sanborn may have left subtle clues in his other pieces. One collection of his is called Covert Ops. It has many pieces and are located in several different locations. The English pieces have been decoded, but not the Cyrillic or Arabic pieces. I don't have access to the Arabic pieces. But the Cyrillic one has been intractable in my attempts to decode it.
Take a look at John's English Covert Ops page. We see two pieces decoded using the Kryptos table. That's a point blank link to Kryptos. It uses Quagmire III just like K1 and K2. The keyword of the first piece is DECEIT. The plaintext talks about intercepting mail and documents from the Russians. Perhaps this is a clue about K2. It's an intercepted communication. Sanborn has admitted as much.
The second piece is interesting in that it has exactly 97 characters just like K4. But it is also encoded using Quagmire III using the same Kryptos table. The keyword is SHADOW. The text is poignant because it talks about uncovering intentions.
The other pieces are located at the Zoly Spy Restaurant. There are two pieces that are meant to be patched together line per line. Then the extra letters are to be removed. And finally, a single rotation is to be done with columns of 16 to decode the text. I find it strange that it is not a double rotation like K3. But what I find most interesting is the word at the top left. It says DINE. This would lead on to believe that the word END at the top left of K3 is not coincidence. I'm also wondering if this is linked to the "breach in the upper left corner" that is found in the plaintext of K3. The decoded text here is very similar to K3. It's a variation of the same text, but at the end, it says "I COULD SEE NOTHING XX".
However, what REALLY interests me is the fact that we see the words SOLI and ISEE running down the right hand side of the encrypted text. SOLI is the Roman Sun God. In K4, the word SOLI also appears. It makes me believe that K3 and K4 are linked together in more ways than one.
Something that caught my eye is the beginning of the 13th line of the second section. DEICET. It has all the same letters as DECEIT. Only the I is misplaced. This is why the word QHEEN and XUEEN may not be as random as we though. Remember that the Cyrillic Projector has the keyword right in the ciphertext.
Ok, enough background. Let's get to it.
I believe that K3 speaks about the first steps to be done to K4. But that at the end, the flame will flicker. IOW, nothing more will be seen until we do something else. We'll visit that part in another post.
The first part says SLOWLY DESPARATLY SLOWLY. What's missing? The E. With LAYERTWO, look where the E is located. I think Sanborn really did commit a mistake. I think LAYERTWO was supposed to be there all along. But I think he removed the X as misdirection. It's actually the E that should be removed. If we decrypt with that letter gone, it would give LAY ROWS.
THE REMAINS OF PASSAGE DEBRIS THAT ENCUMBERED THE LOWER PART OF THE DOORWAY WAS REMOVED
We need to remove the E at the end of K4. You will see something remarkable.
dYAhR
EKCAR
I've always believed that this word should have been ROCK backwards. IOW, it's a misspelling. RACK should have been ROCK. ROCK is debris. We could remove it, but I'll leave it in for now. With the overlay of DYAHR, we see that the lowered letters are to be removed or are misspelled. The word "END" at the beginning of K3 also tells us where DYAHR is to be used.
So what now? We've removed the E. This follows parallels with DESPARATLY, LAYERTWO and the extra letters in the Zola Spy Restaurant pieces. But remember how we needed to use both pieces in the Zola Spy segments? And with the other fragments where it says we need to uncover the intention of the work.
Here's what I think happened.
I believe that K3 and K4 use the same cipher just like K1 and K2 use the same cipher. True that both Sanborn and Scheidt have said that K4 is something else entirely. But hear me out. Suppose that the intercepted K2 message wasn't cut off. Suppose that it continues on to K4. I believe that the correct ordering is K1, K3, K2, K4. Why? Because the English Covert Ops fragment says "I COULD SEE NOTHING". It looks like it's telling you the answer to "CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING". At the very beginning of K2, it says "IT WAS TOTALLY INVISIBLE." That's essentially the same meaning as "I COULD SEE NOTHING". There are other reasons too like the X just before the question in K3. X's are normally found in K2. So there's a definite link there.
Here's what I'm getting at. Assuming that K4 follows K2, then WW's full message doesn't end with LAYER TWO. It ends with K4. But the people talking in K2 haven't decoded his message. The way they're talking, they haven't found the key or the cipher "WHO KNOWS THE EXACT LOCATION ?". And then the other person recites WW's message. This message would be encoded. But then the entire conversation is encoded AGAIN!!!
Think of it this way. Suppose you see a secret encoded message that you cannot decode that says TANSHULRGKKCOULCUORHTU. Then you send it to a friend asking if they can take a look. But it's top secret, so you would send your message to your friend encoded. The message would be something like this.
Then you would encode that whole message. This means that TANSHULRGKKCOULCUORHTU gets encoded twice. Once by the original sender. And once more when you send your message to Bob.
These are called END TO END ciphers. In fact, most ciphers work this way. Other transport mechanism work with POINT TO POINT ciphers. They encode a message for one leg of the transmission where it is decoded to be re-encoded for the next leg. But it end to end ciphers, only the sender and receiver can decode it.
Putting K2 and K4 together may be a representation of what the Zoly Spy segments are trying to tell us.
Ok, we've removed the E and we get a word ROCK which is four letters wide. If LAY ROWS is any indication, then we need 4 columns. Also, the word YAR has letter indexes which add up to 44. The outcroppings in the courtyard each have 4 layers.
WITH TREMBLING HANDS I MADE A TINY BREACH IN THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER
That's the next line of K3. Trembling hands means something gets moved around. And from what we've seen, tiny breach in the upper left hand corner means that we'll get a readable word in the upper left hand corner. Breach is a breach in the cipher (aka getting something readable).
Rotating counterclockwise with columns of 4 gives the following.
ROLLBRPKTSSZJDINTFGXDUUR
KXUOBLQGOQSZTUWBVZWZCKAA
BOHSFFQNSTQKALAFPMKKJGUC
OUGBIWVRSWJEWKINYTPDTIHK
We get the word ROLL. Note too that we get the word RACK (misspelled ROCK) along the right hand side just like the Zola Spy pieces.
We remove ROLL and RACK.
AND THEN WIDENING THE HOLE A LITTLE I INSERTED THE CANDLE AND PEERED IN
We do another rotation.
KZNXKBOTVCOFTLMGGVJIPH
PSIGUOGZBZBFSAPJUWWKTI
RSDFUUQSWWASNKFKOISWYT
BTJTDXLQUZKHQQAKUBREND
At the bottom right, we see the words "HIT END".
THE HOT AIR ESCAPING FROM THE CHAMBER CAUSED THE FLAME TO FLICKER
We've reached the end of this stage. I don't believe that the above is the correct ordering. I think there was a small step that had to be done beforehand. But that's for next time when we look at the masking technique.
I think Sanborn may have left subtle clues in his other pieces. One collection of his is called Covert Ops. It has many pieces and are located in several different locations. The English pieces have been decoded, but not the Cyrillic or Arabic pieces. I don't have access to the Arabic pieces. But the Cyrillic one has been intractable in my attempts to decode it.
Take a look at John's English Covert Ops page. We see two pieces decoded using the Kryptos table. That's a point blank link to Kryptos. It uses Quagmire III just like K1 and K2. The keyword of the first piece is DECEIT. The plaintext talks about intercepting mail and documents from the Russians. Perhaps this is a clue about K2. It's an intercepted communication. Sanborn has admitted as much.
The second piece is interesting in that it has exactly 97 characters just like K4. But it is also encoded using Quagmire III using the same Kryptos table. The keyword is SHADOW. The text is poignant because it talks about uncovering intentions.
The other pieces are located at the Zoly Spy Restaurant. There are two pieces that are meant to be patched together line per line. Then the extra letters are to be removed. And finally, a single rotation is to be done with columns of 16 to decode the text. I find it strange that it is not a double rotation like K3. But what I find most interesting is the word at the top left. It says DINE. This would lead on to believe that the word END at the top left of K3 is not coincidence. I'm also wondering if this is linked to the "breach in the upper left corner" that is found in the plaintext of K3. The decoded text here is very similar to K3. It's a variation of the same text, but at the end, it says "I COULD SEE NOTHING XX".
However, what REALLY interests me is the fact that we see the words SOLI and ISEE running down the right hand side of the encrypted text. SOLI is the Roman Sun God. In K4, the word SOLI also appears. It makes me believe that K3 and K4 are linked together in more ways than one.
Something that caught my eye is the beginning of the 13th line of the second section. DEICET. It has all the same letters as DECEIT. Only the I is misplaced. This is why the word QHEEN and XUEEN may not be as random as we though. Remember that the Cyrillic Projector has the keyword right in the ciphertext.
Ok, enough background. Let's get to it.
I believe that K3 speaks about the first steps to be done to K4. But that at the end, the flame will flicker. IOW, nothing more will be seen until we do something else. We'll visit that part in another post.
The first part says SLOWLY DESPARATLY SLOWLY. What's missing? The E. With LAYERTWO, look where the E is located. I think Sanborn really did commit a mistake. I think LAYERTWO was supposed to be there all along. But I think he removed the X as misdirection. It's actually the E that should be removed. If we decrypt with that letter gone, it would give LAY ROWS.
THE REMAINS OF PASSAGE DEBRIS THAT ENCUMBERED THE LOWER PART OF THE DOORWAY WAS REMOVED
We need to remove the E at the end of K4. You will see something remarkable.
dYAhR
EKCAR
I've always believed that this word should have been ROCK backwards. IOW, it's a misspelling. RACK should have been ROCK. ROCK is debris. We could remove it, but I'll leave it in for now. With the overlay of DYAHR, we see that the lowered letters are to be removed or are misspelled. The word "END" at the beginning of K3 also tells us where DYAHR is to be used.
So what now? We've removed the E. This follows parallels with DESPARATLY, LAYERTWO and the extra letters in the Zola Spy Restaurant pieces. But remember how we needed to use both pieces in the Zola Spy segments? And with the other fragments where it says we need to uncover the intention of the work.
Here's what I think happened.
I believe that K3 and K4 use the same cipher just like K1 and K2 use the same cipher. True that both Sanborn and Scheidt have said that K4 is something else entirely. But hear me out. Suppose that the intercepted K2 message wasn't cut off. Suppose that it continues on to K4. I believe that the correct ordering is K1, K3, K2, K4. Why? Because the English Covert Ops fragment says "I COULD SEE NOTHING". It looks like it's telling you the answer to "CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING". At the very beginning of K2, it says "IT WAS TOTALLY INVISIBLE." That's essentially the same meaning as "I COULD SEE NOTHING". There are other reasons too like the X just before the question in K3. X's are normally found in K2. So there's a definite link there.
Here's what I'm getting at. Assuming that K4 follows K2, then WW's full message doesn't end with LAYER TWO. It ends with K4. But the people talking in K2 haven't decoded his message. The way they're talking, they haven't found the key or the cipher "WHO KNOWS THE EXACT LOCATION ?". And then the other person recites WW's message. This message would be encoded. But then the entire conversation is encoded AGAIN!!!
Think of it this way. Suppose you see a secret encoded message that you cannot decode that says TANSHULRGKKCOULCUORHTU. Then you send it to a friend asking if they can take a look. But it's top secret, so you would send your message to your friend encoded. The message would be something like this.
Hi Bob, I found this ultra top secret code, but cannot make sense of it. Could you take a look? Thanks. Here is the message. TANSHULRGKKCOULCUORHTU
Then you would encode that whole message. This means that TANSHULRGKKCOULCUORHTU gets encoded twice. Once by the original sender. And once more when you send your message to Bob.
These are called END TO END ciphers. In fact, most ciphers work this way. Other transport mechanism work with POINT TO POINT ciphers. They encode a message for one leg of the transmission where it is decoded to be re-encoded for the next leg. But it end to end ciphers, only the sender and receiver can decode it.
Putting K2 and K4 together may be a representation of what the Zoly Spy segments are trying to tell us.
Ok, we've removed the E and we get a word ROCK which is four letters wide. If LAY ROWS is any indication, then we need 4 columns. Also, the word YAR has letter indexes which add up to 44. The outcroppings in the courtyard each have 4 layers.
WITH TREMBLING HANDS I MADE A TINY BREACH IN THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER
That's the next line of K3. Trembling hands means something gets moved around. And from what we've seen, tiny breach in the upper left hand corner means that we'll get a readable word in the upper left hand corner. Breach is a breach in the cipher (aka getting something readable).
Rotating counterclockwise with columns of 4 gives the following.
ROLLBRPKTSSZJDINTFGXDUUR
KXUOBLQGOQSZTUWBVZWZCKAA
BOHSFFQNSTQKALAFPMKKJGUC
OUGBIWVRSWJEWKINYTPDTIHK
We get the word ROLL. Note too that we get the word RACK (misspelled ROCK) along the right hand side just like the Zola Spy pieces.
We remove ROLL and RACK.
AND THEN WIDENING THE HOLE A LITTLE I INSERTED THE CANDLE AND PEERED IN
We do another rotation.
KZNXKBOTVCOFTLMGGVJIPH
PSIGUOGZBZBFSAPJUWWKTI
RSDFUUQSWWASNKFKOISWYT
BTJTDXLQUZKHQQAKUBREND
At the bottom right, we see the words "HIT END".
THE HOT AIR ESCAPING FROM THE CHAMBER CAUSED THE FLAME TO FLICKER
We've reached the end of this stage. I don't believe that the above is the correct ordering. I think there was a small step that had to be done beforehand. But that's for next time when we look at the masking technique.
