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KRYPTOS: Overall Description \| Why this Site Was Created \| TKP Wiki Pages \|
PHYSICAL FEATURES OF KRYPTOS: Grasses \| Petrified Wood \| Copper Screen \| Whirlpool \| Reflective Pond \| Strata \| Stones \|
THE CODE (K0-K5): PRE-K Method/Solution \| K0 Method/Solution \| K1 Method/Solution \| K2 Method/Solution \| K3 Method/Solution \| K4 Method/Clue/Solution \| K5 Method/Solution \|
TRANSCRIPTS: Text \| Overlay on Kryptos \| Sections Color Coded \| K3 Comparison to Covert Ops \| Gary's True Font Transcript & Downloads \|
SANBORN CHARTS: K1-Part of K2 Plain Text \| All Sanborn's Shown Charts \| Sanborn's Encryption Method for K3-K4 \|
CIA ON KRYPTOS (IMPORTANT HIGHLIGHTS): CIA Memo \| CIA K4 comparison to K4 \| Sanborn's letter to the CIA staff \| Anonymous Tip to Elonka \| CIA Cryptogram Articles \|

KRYPTOS MEDIA: Web Pages \| Audio \| Video \| Television \| Literature \| Audio Transcriptions With Timestamps \|
KRYPTOS PHOTO GALLERIES: People, Copper Screen, Pools \| Berslin Wall Stills \| Google Birdseye Views\| CIA Aerials progression from 1949 to present
KRYPTOS GAME MEDIA: Kryptos Virtual Tour (version 2)
KRYPTOS FOIA: CIA \| NSA \| FBI

QUICK KRYPTOS LINKS: Other Dedicated Kryptos' Pages \| Web Links \| Order Mini-Kryptos Today!
REPUTED SOLUTIONS/METHODOLOGIES TO K4: http://theinterfaceplace.com \| Dr. Randy Thompson Released Notes\| OPORD Analytical\| SciRealm \| Shack?? \|
TOOLS: Morse Code Permentations \| Keyed Vigen�re Cipher \| Keyed Vigen�re Cipher using indexies
GROUPS AND COLLABOTATION: Kryptos Wiki \| Kryptos Group \| Kryptos_Sculpture Group \| Kryptos MSN Group \| Kryptos Facebook Group
OTHER UNSOLVED CIPHERS' LINKS: Cipher Mysteries \| Elonka's List of Unsolved Codes and Ciphers \| FBI Cipher

PEOPLE: James (Jim) Sanborn \| Ed Scheidt \| James (Jim) Gillogly \| Elonka Dunin \| William Webster \| Blaise de Vigen�re\| Howard Carter
PLACES: ZOLA Spy Museum \| ZOLA Spy Restraunt with Covert Ops \| CIA Headquarters with Kryptos \| Hirshhorn Muesum with Antipodes
SANBORN'S ARTWORK THROUGHOUT THE DECADES: 1960's \| 1970's \| 1980's \| 1990's \| 2000's \| 2010's

NOTES ON NSA/KRYPTOS MEETINGS: 2005 | 2009

MY PUBLIC MEDIA: My Group Inputs \| Current ideas \| Intresting Inputs \| Observations
EXTRAS: Morse Code Permentation Parser and Auotmatic Lookup \| CIA Virtual Tour (version 1) \| Joke page
OTHER PROJECTS: D'Agapeyeff Code \| D'Agapeyeff Release::New Clue Found \| Lost Symbol \|
CATALYST: Double Encryption
KRYPTOS PRIVATE MEDIA: Hint: I used steganography to hide my X-files --- (login/username/passwd is on every page) Happy Hunting!!!!

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K1 Solution

OTHER CODES OF KRYPTOS:

K0	K1
K2	K3
K4	K5

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Kryptos' Vigen�re table with alphabet: KRYPTOS.

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KEY=PALIMPSEST
ALPHABET=KRYPTOS

Decyrption:

Between subtle shading and the absence of light lies the nuance of iqlusion.

Instructions:

Using the key: PALIMPSEST, align encoded text of K1 to look like the left half of the table above.

Using the Kryptos' Vigen�re table (left): Reading down the first column, (under the letter P) you have E, A, D, V, Q, V, M. , decrypt using line P. NOTE:: The blue letters should be ignored, they serve as the indexing. Find each letter on row P moving up to the top row to find the answer.

Example: Row P find E now go up that column to the top to find it decrypts to a B.

	Other Projects
	If you're interested more information about K1 Solution: Jim Gillogly's 1999 solution of parts 1-3 David Stein's report on how he solved parts 1-3 Bill Houck's 2003 explanation of how to solve parts 1 and 2 A Flash vigenere tablebuilderfor parts 1 and 2 Elonka Dunin's "pencil and paper" explanation of how to solve part 3