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OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

738 points · 448 comments · sohkamyung

  1. mmsc · · focus · HN ↗
    For anybody interested, the actual encrypted message:

      BTTE UM ANGABE DES MARSQWEGES X BEFINDE MIQ IN X ROSENOW ROSENOW X SOFORT FUNKANTWORT X WASCHBBSCH
    which, given misspellings, translates approximately to:

      Please specify the route of march. I am in Rosenow, Rosenow. Immediate reply by radio. Waschbusch.
    1. thm · · focus · HN ↗
      The place is Rosenau actually.
      1. Y-bar · · focus · HN ↗
        I believe Germans spell it achtually.
        1. MostlyStable · · focus · HN ↗
          Ich glaube, dass Deutsche buchstabieren es "aktuelle", eigentlich.

          (apologies for my broken learner German, I decided not to use a translator).

          1. td2 · · focus · HN ↗
            Aktuell is a german word, but not for actually

            Aktuell means current. Not sure if a exact german translation exist for that word. Tatsächlich maybe

            1. LtdJorge · · focus · HN ↗
              Yep, "actual" is Spanish for current, too. A false friend.
              1. jhoechtl · · focus · HN ↗
                Attention! In German a falscher Freund, false friend, is also used as a standing medical term for Flatus deceptor.
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