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Encryption Government

Another Hint For Kryptos 50

rastos1 writes Four years ago Jim Sanborn, the sculptor who created the wavy metal pane called Kryptos that sits in front of the CIA in Langley revealed a clue for breaking the last remaining part of the encrypted message on Kryptos. The clue was: BERLIN. But the puzzle resisted all all decryption efforts and is still unsolved. To honor the 25th anniversary of the Wall's demise and the artist's 69th birthday this year, Sanborn has decided to reveal a new clue to help solve his iconic and enigmatic artwork. It's only the second hint he's released since the sculpture was unveiled in 1990 and may finally help unlock the fourth and final section of the encrypted sculpture, which frustrated sleuths have been struggling to crack for more than two decades. The next word in the sequence is: "clock."
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Another Hint For Kryptos

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  • The artist is 69...
    I hope he wrote the solution in his will because at this rate the encryption will outlive him.

    Actually maybe I don't. It would be also amusing to have a cypher-sculpture in front of CIA headquarters that never gets solved.

    • The artist is 69... I hope he wrote the solution in his will because at this rate the encryption will outlive him.

      Actually maybe I don't. It would be also amusing to have a cypher-sculpture in front of CIA headquarters that never gets solved.

      Perhaps they have solved it, but want to keep that info to themselves?

    • "Sanborn also confirmed that should he die before the entire sculpture becomes deciphered, there will be someone able to confirm the solution."

      • by jd ( 1658 )

        Damn. I was hoping he was going to say that the solution was written down but the piece of acid-free archival paper had been cut into segments, placed in acid-free envelopes, in turn placed in argon-filled boxes, which in turn were buried at secret locations, with the GPS coordinates for each segment written in encrypted format in the will.

  • by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 21, 2014 @08:09PM (#48438291)

    ...to drink your Ovaltine".

  • 1st letter -= length * 2;

    Using the ASCII table as a reference http://www.ascii-code.com/ [ascii-code.com]:
    NYPVTT berlin
    N - (6 * 2) = B

    MZFPK clock
    M - (5 * 2) = C

    I'am probably miles off, but, gave me something to do for 10 minutes.

  • Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

  • by Anonymous Coward

    They are looking at this puzzle the wrong way - the $5 wrench attack would get them some fast results!

  • My guess is that e.g. the "BER" is from numBER or novemBER or somesuch. I have no idea if the LINC computer was important enough to be immortalised here. However, no luck looking for quotations with e.g. octoBER LINC LOCK... etc.
  • Has anyone taken a shovel to the coordinates in part 2?

  • Then clearly we're dealing with a "Berlin clock sucker". :P :P :P

  • "The clock on the wall..." Damn, I'm out of time.

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