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GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

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  1. aaymeloglu · · focus · HN ↗
    Agents just eat these things. After last week's HN post about Cyphral Distich, I pointed Astra and Fable at some unsolved ciphers just to see whether some joker who knew nothing about the field could get the same results, and sure enough there's plenty of low hanging fruit.

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aaymeloglu.github.io&#x2F;unsolved-ciphers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aaymeloglu.github.io&#x2F;unsolved-ciphers&#x2F;

    But I got nothing on Daniel Bordeau, who in the past week seems to have built himself a whole code breaking factory!

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dbourdeau.github.io&#x2F;cyphersolver&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dbourdeau.github.io&#x2F;cyphersolver&#x2F;index.html

    1. greenavocado · · focus · HN ↗
      We are so jaded by constant breakthroughs that 100 year old unsolved ciphers are referred to as &quot;low hanging fruit&quot;
      1. NooneAtAll3 · · focus · HN ↗
        some things are unsolved because they&#x27;re hard

        but most things are unsolved because nobody even knows they exist

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