Kryptos Solution

I have a lot of material that I don't share because I'm still working on them and want to see if there isn't something more to it. However, I do share more and more as time goes on. Usually, the smaller stuff. I now want to share something I found a LONG time ago. It appeared to be significant, but I cannot make any headway with it. So please take a look and see if you can't find something I missed. I DO have more on this, but it's all speculative. I will not be discussing this other material here until later.

This clue is something I'm amazed I haven't seen mentioned before. Sanborn said there was some steganography used for K4. I'm guessing he left some hidden clues for us about K4. Well, he said he left instructions in the earlier text that describes subsequent text.

Ok, take a look at K2's plaintext.

IT WAS TOTALLY INVISIBLE HOW'S THAT POSSIBLE ? THEY USED THE
EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD X THE INFORMATION WAS GATHERED AND TRANSMITTED
UNDERGRUUND TO AN UNKNOWN LOCATION X DOES LANGLEY KNOW ABOUT
THIS ? THEY SHOULD IT'S 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


And now K3.

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?


Notice that we disregard question marks when we placed 10 words per line. See anything strange? There are exactly 75 words in both K2 and K3. The X's and Q's seem to be used to pad the text in order to achieve this equality.

Why would K2 and K3 have exactly 75 words?

That's not all. We can look at the Morse Code and see something else. If we only take the valid letters (not the extra E's), only take the fully stated letters (so we don't include the cut off O at the end of INTERPRETATION) and not use SOS RQ, we get exactly 75 letters. Yes, that's cherry picking. But it's not that far fetched. The extra E's are not part of the words. And SOS RQ are located differently from the rest of the Morse Code. So really, 75 letters is what we have in the main text.

There are 196 dits and dashes. Twice 98. Unfortunately, we now know that there are 97 letters in K4. Still, it does not mean that 98 characters can't be used in K4 for a transposition or some kind of clue to that effect even if the final plaintext is only 97 letters.

At this point, if all you know is that K2 and K3 have the same word count, that's enough of a discovery. I'm now going to reveal more information that is more uncertain.

We can look at a type of NULL cihper where we take the X's and Q's and look up the word at the same location in the other text. Here's what we get.

OF BREACH LITTLE THE SEE / FOUR TWO

FOUR and TWO are from looking up the position of X and Q of K3 in K2. So while I can do something with FOUR TWO, it doesn't seem to flow with the rest.

Flip the first part backwards.

SEE THE LITTLE BREACH OF

Of what?

There is one more X in K3. But it leads to the word FOUR in K2. That doesn't seem right. Normally, I would dismiss a random sequence of words. But this phrase seems legit. It actually forms the beginning of a sentence. It even has the word SEE which is referenced in the K3 question. It also has a synonym for TINY BREACH in LITTLE BREACH.

Where is the last word? What does the X in K3 map to? Well, if it's not in either K3 (that's where the X is) and FOUR in K2 doesn't make sense, the only place left to look is K1. It happens to have a Q in its last word. Perhaps this is a clue to match that word with the Q of K3. If we do that, then the X matches up to the word LIGHT in K1.

SEE THE LITTLE BREACH OF LIGHT

If we use question marks as words, then the question marks don't indicate anything. But if we take the words BEFORE the question mark, we get this sentence already in the correct order.

PASSAGE CORNER IN WEST

Not sure on that one. The previous phrase really does hit home though, doesn't it?

I'm inclined to think that both K3 and SEE THE LITTLE BREACH OF LIGHT is pointing to DYAHR where the raised letters backward spell RAY. It is in the upper left corner as K3 mentions.

As for coincidences, I'll only mention two of them.

1. The phrase has 25 letters just like the amount of letters before the question marks and after the last one.
2. The dits and dashes of the Morse Code for that phrase are in the amount of 63 exactly like the amount of K1 letters.

If anyone wants, I can continue this talk next time about how IQLUSION connects to DOOR and how the last Q in K3 and UNDERGRUUND both connect to HINT. The Q in IQLUSION links to both DESPAIR and ATLAS. There is also DYAHR that pops up in order to create these connections. I still don't know what any of this could mean or if I'm just on a wild goose chase. I think the missing link lies in the WEST coordinates. Maybe all the coordinates.

Still, the phrase SEE THE LITTLE BREACH OF LIGHT is a fully formed sentence by only using the X's in the text as a NULL cipher on words to achieve steganography. Yes, it could very well just be coincidence. There's just something about full sentences that raises my eyebrows though. Same thing about A QLU IV MAPS JS formed by a simple de-seriation or railfence algorithm on PALIMPSEST and JQUVAJ where three of those letters can be obtained via the misspellings. The V will form part of IV. and QUAJ could be a clue for QUAG IV. Perhaps the masking technique is a railfence technique and a final stage of Quag IV? Who knows?

If you have any thoughts on the phrase SEE THE LITTLE BREACH OF LIGHT, please let me know.