> These cryptographic systems were not designed by the sculptor himself but by Edward Scheidt, who retired as chairman of the CIA’s Cryptographic Center in 1989.
The article left me with a nagging question: Doesn’t the designer of the codes deserve a share of the proceeds of the auction? He’s still alive according to Wikipedia. It sounds like the unsolved code is what makes the art especially valuable. Was the cryptographer’s effort a “work for hire”, so he doesn’t get anything from the sale?
1. Stand at first light: face EAST, then NORTHEAST. Let the BERLIN CLOCK choose; read where the shad 2. Make a narrow breach of light; hold still; as the edge moves, letters awaken and the sealed doorw 3. Four passes: hours, hour, minutes, minute. Read on each sweep; the rising sun will order what see
He is an artist, not a mathematician. It’s a physical reveal for this layer of the copper onion.
a direct reference to the Berlin Clock. Sanborn further stated that in order to solve section 4, "You'd better delve into that particular clock".[2] However, Sanborn also said that, "There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin."
I have discovered a truly marvelous solution to this code, which this text box is too small to contain.
“lies” is grammatically incorrect here. Shouldn’t it read “lays”?
And the secret key is: puppy
I've spent a fair amount of time on K4, and my conclusion is that it's simply a poor puzzle. At this point 24 of 97 characters have been revealed, and yet there's seemingly still not enough information pointing to how the known plaintext corresponds to the ciphertext. Over the decades everything reasonable has been tried and eliminated, which means the solution is likely to be unreasonable.