Regrouping
Ahh, a new year of Kryptos… Krypto fans, I haven’t been getting anywhere with Kryptos and unless there is a miraculous discovery in 2013, I doubt we’ll figure it out. The problem I think lies in...
View ArticleAnything New On Kryptos’ Creator?
So James Sanborn created Kryptos… in our modern, connected world – should we try and see what new there is to learn on the creator? It’s been done before. I know the context is different but there is...
View ArticleWhat about The Other Guys?
There are a lot of people involved in aspects of Kryptos aside from the obvious of Jim Sanborn. What about trying to contact these other guys? Let’s see… Edward Scheidt, then retiring Chairman of the...
View ArticleDelay in Game
Well Kryptos fans, it’s not really a power outage though, more of a learning curve. I’m not but I am It’s more that I need context. I need good questions. I need better questions. I need really,...
View ArticleHappy Valentine’s Day Kryptos Fans!
Happy Valentine’s Day Kryptos Fans! -Kryptosfan Tagged: kryptos, Valentine's Day
View ArticleKryptos Questions
Here is a list of questions about Kryptos I would love the chance to ask and have answered. I’m making no pretenses of being a journalist and I keep getting dogged by the feeling that I’m not quite...
View ArticleCollated Kryptos Fan Letters
Well, Kryptos Letters for better or worse… Here’s the: Letter to Jim Sanborn about Kryptos Letter to Ed Scheidt about Kryptos Letter to the early solvers about Kryptos Please take a second to look them...
View ArticleJim Gillogly Answer Questions About Kryptos
It was hard to find an exclamation mark to indicate how excited I am to get a response but I’ll just leave this here. Here’s the link to his responses: Jim Gillogly is awesome And now I’m off to look...
View ArticleLast Ditch Efforts to Find Kryptos People Contact Info
I’m sure I’m not the only fan of Kryptos who has tried to track someone down unsuccessfully. So if anyone has any contact information for: Ed Scheidt David Stein Ken Miller Dennis McDaniels The other 2...
View ArticleJohn’s Kryptos Efforts
Attached are an experiment on the K4 section of Kryptos, I figured if you liked my concept you could put it onto your blog as another attempt at solving it, this may lead to others viewing it and...
View ArticleJim Sanborn Answers Kryptos Questions
There was an email miscommunication but here are Jim Sanborn’s answers to questions about Kryptos. In retrospect, what would you have done differently? nothing What had you wanted to do but...
View ArticleDuress and Kryptos
Scheidt implies an interest in duress ciphers that is relevant to Kryptos Ok, so at first I didn’t know what duress ciphers were. I thought they were literally a type of cipher that had two different...
View ArticleLocation of Typos in Kryptos
So Sanborn says it’s not what the misspellings are but where they are? Assuming my previous mention of duress ciphers is important, let’s take a look at the misspellings… “One of these things is not...
View ArticleIs Kryptos K3 A Lie?
The question is whether the third part of Kryptos is trustworthy. My proposition is that it is not. I suspect we will find a misspelling in K4 but that it will be one letter only and that will or...
View ArticleVisual Encoding in Kryptos
Sanborn references individualistic visual encoding systems in Kryptos. (ref: WIRED article, 2005) Optical illusions don’t have to be that far off. I think there is some physical relationship between...
View ArticleKryptos Keywords
The keywords in Kryptos… For a long time, I agonized over how we were supposed to know them and what they could mean. I spent a lot of time considering different definitions, etc. etc. I’m not sure I...
View ArticleKryptos, section 3, Jim Sanborn’s notes
Has anyone looking into Kryptos found a satisfactory explanation for the P and C usage in this picture? The origin is supposedly the NOVA video with Sanborn. It’s been circulating for awhile, I just...
View ArticleNY Times Kryptos Hints Revisited
Any Kryptos fans think it’s strange that they included the question mark? I’m sure someone would have fact-checked that but could be wrong. It’s not numbered or anything and we need it for the last...
View Articlep.s. It’s as simple as ABC
Kryptos fans will come across the phrase “p.s., It’s as simple as A-B-C” which is an anagram of Palimpsest and Abscissa. The question we must ask ourselves is whether this is a clever...
View ArticleTimescape and KryptosFreak
Okay, so we mulled over the possible Kryptos keywords anagrams and in doing so, two other someones brought up a very interesting possibility. Okay, here’s the comments: timescape: With the derivation...
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