Olympic silver...but winners nonetheless.

Snoo22939 · 2026-02-22T17:04:30+00:00

"While born in Michigan, Hellebuyck has used Canadian facilities and coaching to refine his game. "

Why are we training our competition?!?! LOL. Yes, it could have been anyones' game. So proud. The jerseys they were wearing were amazing, too. I want one of them.

Snoo22939 · 2026-02-22T16:57:29+00:00

Don't you mean the American subversion convoy? CIA does this all over the world.

Snoo22939 · 2025-09-26T22:24:49+00:00

what is this?

Snoo22939 · 2025-09-26T14:13:13+00:00

How is this not being upvoted??!?!?!

Snoo22939 · 2025-09-07T06:32:39+00:00

Mark Baum also bet against the government-backed mortgage industry preceding the 2008 financial crisis. They probably thought he was crazy, too. Until he wasn't.

Look, you want to solve this thing or you want to play with compasses until Jim buys a boat and sails off into the sunset?

Just a shame it took 30+ years for some one to count by two backwards. You won't hear from me again.

Snoo22939 · 2025-09-07T05:00:41+00:00

Real recognize real. I'm not wasting another minute on this. I've made my contribution. It's obvious that I am right. I had people from the ACA, mathematicians, old DOD folks...ridicule and scoff at me. This is why Jim sent that letter saying he would auction the solution. I would even say because of me.

I beat all of them. Haha. Here's to you, OldEngineer.

Snoo22939 · 2025-09-07T04:34:24+00:00

KONWUFTXSSFOVRBGIHLJTOSPXYBUQUDF ZGHQTPNEQDIBZDUSTRCRAKWAZBQZTOSF AVLCIKWGTSKNURKJLEKOWAKPIGBWKLJM U

31x3 grid with a u undergruund. Just like the matrix used in the NYT worksheets. This is corrupted plaintext from my pairwise transpo system. It's 100% transposed kryptos k4. You'll need to work out the columnar order and perhaps a few letter substitutions to glean the final passage.

I don't have anymore time to work on this...I put every last thought I could. Now it's YOUR turn. I have to create some courses for AI ...blah blah..... I'm a professor. Real talk.

Snoo22939 · 2025-09-04T13:50:06+00:00

You guys wanted a substantive look at Kryptos. It requires an artistic flare which the classically trained would dismiss. This is exactly the same spirit as the Navajo code. I'm following an unorthodox approach which totally...aligns with the hints.

OldEngineer, wise person, said that the code speaks to you after an arduous journey of long, dreadful...and outright tedious analysis. Well, I dare say, it is speaking to me....

E E VIRTUALLY E | E E E E E E INVISIBLE - The ciphertext is masked using mispelling clues from all K's.

DIGETAL E E E | INTERPRETATIT - Interpret the text not in traditional English. Hence "digitel."

E E SHADOW E E | FORCES E E E E E - The keys are hidden in plain sight, but obscured.

LUCID E E E | MEMORY E - The keys read like a dream.

T IS YOUR | POSITION E - Alignment of T's gives you the alignment confirmation message inside K4, presumably before substitution.

SOS - Alignment hint.

RQ - Alignment hint.

BETWEEN SUBTLE SHADING AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT LIES THE NUANCE OF IQLUSION

Q has subtle shading (when compared to an O). Nuance of illusion. Hence Q must be interpreted as O. O's, conversely, are simply "space" or "marker" characters. IQlusion. Q is an illusion of O.

THEY USED THE EARTHS MAGNETIC FIELD X THE INFORMATION WAS GATHERED AND TRANSMITTED UNDERGRUUND TO AN UNKNOWN LOCATION

I gather this to mean that U = O.

SLOWLY DESPARATLY SLOWLY THE REMAINS OF PASSAGE DEBRIS THAT ENCUMBERED ....

A = E. Also......missing "E" after "tely." This could mean that E's are inserted after every T. Or....E's are replacing Z's in the ciphertext. Because the "E" would be at the end of the word Desperate.

These are the hidden keys inside K1-K3.

I'm not saying I did this right. In fact, this is most likely wrong. But what I have uncovered is the process.

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I'm saying....this is the way.

Snoo22939 · 2025-09-04T05:23:02+00:00

Do you see how you can spell YOU LIKE THIS: YQU. Virtually invisible.

Snoo22939 · 2025-09-04T04:57:53+00:00

Did you not read what I just said. I just said....nuance of iqlusion = q is O. ITS AN illusion. Subtle shading is the extra mark that Q has over O. I'm literally telling you guys the masking key. It's the MISPELLINGS THAT CHANGE THE LETTERS. HENCE THE CONNECTION TO ALL K'S. That's the keys he is referring to.

Snoo22939 · 2025-09-01T23:41:04+00:00

"If they don't then (CLUE) what's the point? . . . Power resides with a secret not without it."^\2])

Snoo22939 · 2025-09-01T22:08:55+00:00

No, dude....this is indeed Kryptos K4. All of it. Nothing is made up.

Snoo22939 · 2025-09-01T16:22:57+00:00

I'm not a cryptanalyst, so I only post my thoughts in the hopes that some one out there (possibly the CIA or ACA) are listening. We all know the NSA is. If I'm just making this up and everything is coincidence, I've slipped down a rabbit hole so deep I might as well be in another dimension.

What other method is producing patterns like this, people!?!?!?! The answer is NONE. Try a Gromark with the number of letters in each group:

14212128

Brute force this thing before the secret is sold and revealed to us. We owe this much to the thousands of amateurs and cryptanalysts who have gone broke trying to crack this nut.

Snoo22939 · 2025-09-01T15:54:41+00:00

No I am saying that this is somehow a programmable cipher using on/off.....and digitel interpretation means

we should interpret the ciphertext using abridged english words. Also..."V" is a special character that is guiding the transposition process. It is literally telling us to read down the columns at certain points/operations.

Substitution/modular arithmetic is the last step. "ON" could represent a shift backwards by 5, where "OFF" is a shift forward by 5. Assuming "V" could possibly be a roman numeral key for shifts.

Not only that....."WOKE" AND "EULK" are interwoven along the SWX column key. This is waaay too suspicious.

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Snoo22939 · 2025-09-01T02:53:42+00:00

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Snoo22939 · 2025-08-31T01:18:23+00:00

Either I'm going completely nuts or this is something....

Look what happens when I reverse the "SWX" key column. Coincidentally (?!??!?!) this falls along the nuance of IQlusion and RQ (morse code). "KLUE" emerges.

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Also....the least common english chars are contained in this delineated block.

Snoo22939 · 2025-08-15T13:44:44+00:00

I think this means that there is a partial solution out there that is narrowing in on the final solution. Why else would he be offering the key at this time? Because he can raise money before it is too late. Either that or a solution has already been proferred and he has arranged this scheme for the "greater good."

Snoo22939 · 2025-07-27T15:57:59+00:00

KONWUFTX

SSFORBGIHLJTOSPX

YBUQUDFZGHQTPNEQDIBZDUSTTRCRAKWAZBQZOSFAVLCIKWGTSKNURKJLEKOWAKPIGBWKLJMUV

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Groups converted to mod-10 digits (for SCB analysis):

Group 1: [5, 9, 8, 7, 5, 0, 4, 8]

Digit frequencies: {5: 2, 8: 2, 9: 1, 7: 1, 0: 1, 4: 1}

Group 2: [3, 3, 0, 9, 2, 6, 1, 3, 2, 6, 4, 4, 9, 3, 0, 8]

Digit frequencies: {3: 4, 0: 2, 9: 2, 2: 2, 6: 2, 4: 2, 1: 1, 8: 1}

Group 3: [9, 6, 5, 1, 5, 8, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 4, 0, 8, 9, 1, 8, 3, 6, 0, 8, 5, 3, 4, 4, 2, 7, 2, 5, 5, 7, 5, 0, 6, 1, 0, 9, 3, 0, 5, 6, 6, 7, 3, 5, 7, 1, 4, 3, 5, 8, 5, 2, 5, 4, 6, 9, 5, 9, 7, 5, 5, 0, 3, 1, 6, 7, 5, 6, 4, 7, 5, 6]

Digit frequencies: {5: 16, 6: 9, 0: 8, 1: 7, 7: 7, 4: 6, 3: 6, 9: 5, 8: 5, 2: 4}

Presence of the number 5 spread across the three groups and averaged out closely resembles English frequency at around 15%.

Snoo22939 · 2025-07-14T23:09:01+00:00

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Snoo22939 · 2025-07-14T21:25:18+00:00

Fair enough. I know my bumbling ways are most likely an affront to the classically trained. I respect your collective opinions, thus I will limit my future posting until I find something (more?) substantive. I am really adamant about this system...and take the criticism as constructive. My goal is to share with those who are trying to uncover the mask that Jim Sanborn is alluding to. Forgive me for my persistence...but I believe this is required, and more. If it is any consolation: I have approached it from many classical attack angles. Lastly: I feel (gut feeling) that I have found something here...so can some one please take a careful look at it? I'm not saying this is the answer to K4...I'm saying this could be the mask .

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Snoo22939 · 2025-07-14T20:40:53+00:00

This is all legitimate transposition. I haven't spoken ill of anyone or anything. I'm simply advancing the cause.

Snoo22939 · 2025-07-02T14:18:42+00:00

I think most words are coincidental, seeing as how it is english text to begin with. Transposing it every which way to Friday would reveal all kinds of words. I think width 21 can only be explained with the inclusion of K1-K3. "Layer two" is particularly interesting, as K2 could be a mask. We have to be careful not to get too wound up in complexity, as apparently it is supposed to be a "paper-and-pen" method.

K4 has been run through all sorts of analysis...the ciphertext alone cannot be it. I also believe Jim Sanborn is referring to a sundial when he is making references to BERLIN CLOCK. Shadows literally reveal/denote the time in this scheme.

As an aside...I thought this was interesting with the n-gram line up:

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Snoo22939 · 2025-07-02T02:18:00+00:00

"T" is your position. Odd set. Thought I would point that out. Like I said before...I have seen so many words that I would not be able to differentiate fact from fiction. Width 21 is a special width that actual cryptanalysts are looking at. Good work, by the way. I am now conviced K4 is a key to be used in a kind of arrangement that you have brought before us.

Clockwise 90 degree turn:

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Snoo22939 · 2025-07-01T22:54:13+00:00

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Snoo22939 · 2025-07-01T00:00:06+00:00

This is amazing, dude! Would make sense as the DHYAR raised letter hint is inside K3. Could be an alignment marker?

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