The Unbreakable Kryptos Code

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[Chapters]
00:00 Intro
02:30 The Vigenère Table
05:45 Partial Decipherment of Kryptos
07:46 Identifying Ciphers Within the Code
11:09 Breaking K2
15:21 Breaking K3 and K1
17:49 The K1-K3 Plaintext
24:02 The Mystery of K4
27:21 The Intended Solutions
36:50 The IDBYROWS Mishap
39:56 The K4 Clues
41:44 Hypothetical Solutions to K4
45:45 Outro

[HistoryDose]

Lemmino just makes consistent “drop everything and watch this now” videos

[mxtorres]

Brothers, we have been reunited once again.

[enthusiasticgeek]

bro got contracted to decorate a courtyard and made a whole ass arg

[jmorgmate]

The fact you had to learn and understand this first, in order to be able to create this content and explain it to us is just incredible dedication. You're the absolute GOAT, never stop doing these.

[ThinkerYT]

Crazy how i watched 47 minutes of numbers and letters and didnt get bored for a second lol Lemmino is the goat

[jacobstoner]

Me: “What’s the WI-FI password?”
Friend: “It’s on the back of the router”
The back of the router:

[crushbeast]

34:10 I deliberately slowed down the video and you actually said all 192 letters, both times. Thank you.

[prismstar]

My problem with Sanborn's keywords is the fact that even now, nobody could deduce 100% conclusive reasonings for finding "PALIMPSEST" and "ABSCISSA" with the available clues we have now. We have theories, but none of them seem very...right. Also just giving the answers of parts of the K4 plaintext doesn't really help if nobody knows HOW to get there in the first place. It's like giving the final answer to a complex maths question and then being asked how to get there.

[DanielBrown]

Yeah my buddy Eric solved it already but he doesn't “want to brag about it” he's a very humble and chill guy

[DHCR-core]

The deliberate misspellings to throw off codebreaking attempts is one of those things that I love because it can either be a clue or a complete red herring.

[emilyspeight]

I’m sure someone else has mentioned this but a Palimpsest is also an archaeological term for a collection of random artefacts (from different time periods or places) that have been deposited in one place by natural or human means. I’m also shocked this wasn’t mentioned though I’m sure someone else has considered it, the references to rows and abscissa could have to do with the “X” points in K2

[corvigay]

as someone who has a very difficult time understanding how cryptography works, your visual representations are absolutely fantastic! it was very easy to understand everything you were explaining, and i appreciate just how much extra work was put into that aspect of the video. very excited to have found this channel!

[davi]

i can hear the sheer annoyance and desperation of cracking this code at the end there lmao this definitely got lemmino crazy for months

[CrimsoniteSP]

I like how this guy made a reputation of only posting once in a blue moon and every single video is an absolute banger. Love this guy

[qwertyuiopzxcfgh]

Surely it's not a coincidence that the compass rose is pointing west-southwest and the k4 plaintext contains the phrase east-northeast? Thats the exact opposite direction...

Edit: for fun, I tried to invert the coordinates from K2, to find the exact other side of the earth. It's a few dozen miles off the coast of Île Saint-Paul, an uninhabited island. I would rate the chance that this is the correct solution as low 😅

[Amy-ohqb]

I wonder if anyone has tried reading one half of the sculpture THROUGH the other half (the light of the sun casting shadows as though they're superimposed upon one another).

I'd assume the compass pointing to the lodestone, coordinates mentioned in the solved part of the code and/or the East North East Berlin might provide the direction the sculpture is intended to be read through OR the direction in which the sun needs to be shining in order to provide the solution.

All of that aside, what a beautiful piece of art! Not just the "main" sculpture, but the whole interactive experience. Absolutely wonderful ☺

[Gorevet]

K4 says “If you enjoyed my puzzle, like and subscribe”

[TheLOL_]

The fact that we've been at this for 33 years, with the first three being solved relatively instantly while the 4th one is still unsolved makes me think that Sanborn is literally just trolling us, and he's just gonna tell us all on his deathbed that he was kidding this whole time and it's all just gibberish.

[Jakentosh]

This video really makes me interested in Kryptos and decided to spent 7 hours of my life trying to crack the code, to no avail.

[Skillot]

Bro casually taught all of us how to do ciphering better than most teachers 💯