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INTERVIEW: Kryptos K4 Uncovered - Jarett Kobek and Richard Byrne on discovering the answer to a decades-long mystery
Juliet Escoria, Mesha Maren, 2025. Zona Motel (Substack), 17 October 2025.
The two finders describe the archive visit of 2 September 2025, how the strips were recognised, and Kobek's statement that "there's no way on earth that this is a cryptographic solve".
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First-hand account of the find.
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Escoria, J., & Maren, M. (2025). INTERVIEW: Kryptos K4 Uncovered - Jarett Kobek and Richard Byrne on discovering the answer to a decades-long mystery. Zona Motel (Substack), 17 October 2025. https://zonamotel.substack.com/p/interview-kryptos-k4-uncovered-jarett
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