In this post I want to talk about a thing from the Kryptos universe that are not directly related to the statue. But i think it may be an indirect hint to some Kryptos related methods. The Mayan Symbols in Ed Scheidts driveway I think everyone who knows Kryptos knows Ed Scheidt. The former Chairman of the Cryptographic Center at the CIA and founder of the cryptosystems used around the Kryptos statue. As already shown in Part 4 of my Kryptos series, in the driveway of Ed Scheidts house, there are two symbols: Figure 1 - Garage driveway of Ed Scheidt We denote the left symbol set with $S_1$ and the right one with $S_2$. It took me a while to find his house on Google Maps - Street View. To save you some time, here is the link with a view on the driveway. I you go back in time in Streetview, you can see that the symbols were already there in 2012. But it is impossible to say when they were built. $S_1$ is clearly visible from the street, $S_2$ is hidden in the view. But you can u...
Below is a timeline showing the 4 points in time when Elgar used his cipher symbols. If anyone knows of another point and can tell me what Elgar did with his symbols or what he wrote about them, please let me know.
Timeline:
1 - - - - - - - - - - 2 3 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4
1: 1885/86 - That is the Lisz-Fragment; the annotation he wrote on the side of some musical nodes [Figure 5,6, in Part 1].
2: 1896 - The Courage card set. He wrote his cipher symbols [Figure 3, in Part 2] on the first card of the set of nine cards on which he explained his solution of the Pall Mall Magazin cipher challenge.
3: 1897 - The Dorabella cipher [Figure 1, in Part 1].
4: 1920 - His notebook, that contains the example subsitutions [Figure 2, in Part 1].
Based on this timeline, one can see, that the timespan between $3$ and $4$ is $23$ years. Thus the cipher scheme approach written in his notebook could very well be some kind of effort to remind his old cipher system. The two events that are close in time are $2$ and $3$, that are the symbols from the Courage card set and the Dorabella cipher. Perhaps he used the idea of the challenge cipher (Nihilist cipher) in combination with his cipher symbols to construct the Dorabella cipher?
The Dorabella Cipher (Part 4)
The Dorabella Cipher (Part 4)
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