Experiment 178
F3.5 (C10(a), C10(c)). 0061 used the misspelt letters themselves (QUA, LOE) as a short second key. Here their positions are the numbers: the place of the wrong letter in its word (2, 8, 5; the missing E at 9), in its plaintext (57, 115, 11; E at 15), and counted through K1-K3 (57, 178, 443; E 447); the raised Y, A, R at places 4, 5, 7 of their line; the shift each misspelling makes (L to Q, O to U, E to A) on the standard and KRYPTOS orders; the letters as numbers; RQ and its upside-down YR; Bauer's error coordinates (25,2) (24,6) (11,15) (15,15). Each forward and reversed, with an unknown word of 1-24 letters, every start, both signs, 12 table rules (0175's decider).
What the method does with the 24 known letters.
Sanborn said the misspellings matter for where the letters sit, not what they are. So we take where they sit, as numbers: the Q is the 2nd letter of IQLUSION and the 57th of K1the earlier messages The three solved parts of the sculpture., and so on, and try those numbers as half of the keythe secret word The word or string a cipher needs besides the method. with a secret word as the other half, on K4the carved letters The 97 letters cut into the copper at the CIA, shown at the top of every experiment page. and on scrambled copies.
Words in the margin are defined on the glossary page.
The carved letters go in at the top; the reading comes out at the bottom.
Sanborn: the misspellings matter for 'the positioning' of those letters. Their places, and the shifts they make, could be the number half of a key.
Every reading as numbers repeated from every start, added or subtracted, with a secret word of 1-24 letters on each of 12 table rules; the 24 known letters must agree on the word.
Nothing fits K4 or any of 20 scrambled copies; a planted text is found. F3.5 closed.
This experiment produced no candidate: the search ruled everything out before a full text was built. Its product is the bounded negative in section 7.
Redo the method on a few letters with pencil and paper.
The same steps run by the code on the real letters.
2 8 5 (the misspelt letters' places in their words) from the first number, Vigenere on the KRYPTOS table, word length 7
place known carved key num word value slot
22 E F 1 2 25 0
23 A L 10 8 2 1
24 S R 21 5 16 2
25 T V 18 2 16 3
26 N Q 1 8 19 4
27 O Q 15 5 10 5
28 R P 2 2 0 6
29 T R 23 8 15 0
30 H N 5 5 0 1
31 E G 2 2 0 2
32 A K 19 8 11 3
33 S S 0 5 21 4
34 T S 2 2 0 5
64 B N 11 2 9 0
65 E Y 17 8 9 1
66 R P 2 5 23 2
67 L V 5 2 3 3
68 I T 15 8 7 4
69 N T 11 5 6 5
70 C M 9 2 7 6
71 L Z 8 8 0 0
72 O F 7 5 2 1
73 C P 20 2 18 2
74 K K 0 8 18 3
Family, key space, the constraint under test, and the clues it reads.
C10: 'it's more the orientation of those letters that's useful there... the positioning' (Sanborn 2003); (a) positions as indices, (b) Bauer's coordinates, (c) orientation. C5(b), C6. Model as 0175: k_i = w[i mod a] + s d[(i + o) mod m], 12 rules; the 24 known letters force k; the word's slots must agree. Statistic: live settings and dictionary words, K4 against 20 coppers. Index readings into the tableau as a short key are any periodic key of length 3-4 on the sculpture's tables, which 0005 already excludes.
Written before the run; the result decides it.
No setting fits K4 or the coppers (5 or more checks each). Zero candidates.
The harness's record: candidates, gates, loss, and the negative result this experiment leaves behind.
live settings with >=4 checks: K4 0 (coppers 0-0); dictionary words 4+: K4 0 (coppers 0-0); plant found True
What was searched, as the harness recorded it.
How this experiment sits among the others is on the lineage page; its family's open hypotheses are on the families page.