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Cryptodiagnosis of "Kryptos K4"

Richard Bean, 2021. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2021), Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 183: 25-33.

Monte Carlo permutation tests on the K4 ciphertext and the released plaintext find strong evidence of a one-to-one relation between corresponding letters; proposes the Gromark cipher as a system that would explain most or all of the observed properties.

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The best open statistical analysis of K4; source of the method entries.

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Bean, R. (2021). Cryptodiagnosis of "Kryptos K4". Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2021), Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 183: 25-33. https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp183153
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