# Escoria 2025: INTERVIEW: Kryptos K4 Uncovered - Jarett Kobek and Richard Byrne on discovering the answer to a decades-long mystery

> Juliet Escoria, Mesha Maren, 2025. 7 records on Mysteries Department cite it. First-hand account of the find.

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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".

**Kryptos** Web pageCopy of **[Five scrambled plaintext pages in the Jim Sanborn papers](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kryptos/artifacts/ART0D7HTJA2066W/five-scrambled-plaintext-pages-in-the-jim-sanborn-papers)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

First-hand account of the find.

## Cited by on this site 7 records

[Five scrambled plaintext pages in the Jim Sanborn papers](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kryptos/artifacts/ART0D7HTJA2066W/five-scrambled-plaintext-pages-in-the-jim-sanborn-papers)

ART

[Five scrambled plaintext pages in the Jim Sanborn papers: photo](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kryptos/copies/CPY0D7HTJHW5BD9/five-scrambled-plaintext-pages-in-the-jim-sanborn-papers)

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[Kobek himself says the find is not a cryptographic solve.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kryptos/evidence/EVD0D7HT9GT6HVE/kobek-himself-says-the-find-is-not-a-cryptographic-solve)

Evidence

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[Kobek and Byrne find the K4 plaintext among Sanborn's papers at the Archives of American Art](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kryptos/events/EVT0D7HT72P2N18/kobek-and-byrne-find-the-k4-plaintext-among-sanborns-papers)

EVT

[Jarett Kobek](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kryptos/people/FIG0D7HT3DG08YP/jarett-kobek)

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[Richard Byrne](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kryptos/people/FIG0D7HT3NA5CTW/richard-byrne)

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[Kryptos](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kryptos)

The mystery article

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## Cite it

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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
```

[Read it free at zonamotel.substack.com](https://zonamotel.substack.com/p/interview-kryptos-k4-uncovered-jarett)

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