Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Kryptos - The Cipher (Part 4)




EASTNORTHEAST - This is not exactly the hint Jim Sanborn (JS) gave for K4 on the 29th of January this year. He only gave NORTHEAST - which refers to the positions 26-34 of K4's plaintext.  Beside BERLIN and CLOCK it is the third revealed plaintext word of K4. However, also this hint does not seem to help much. 

However, it just so happened, that a member in the yahoo kryptos group had a conversation with Jim Sanborn due to a submitted solution. Sandborn's answer to the question contained again the last clue which surprisingly was EASTNORTHEAST at position 22-34. There is disagreement if Jim revealed this on purpose or he did it accidentially, but the new extended clue seem to be serious and valid. 

Interestingly, EASTNORTHEAST is exactly the direction which is illustrated on the
wind rose on one of the stones around kryptos, also created by Jim Sanborn.


Below you can see that new hint at the position in the plaintext:

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