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1. nexawave-ai · 1790088213 · focus · HN ↗

   I wonder, with all the recent announcements about LLMs assisting humans in deciphering encrypted messages, whether they could potentially be leveraged to decipher the Zodiac Killer’s two remaining unsolved ciphers.

   1. rhdunn · 1790089155 · focus · HN ↗

      The two remaining Zodiac cyphers are very short: 13 characters and 32 characters respectively. As the messages don't share a cypher with the other messages they could theoretically be anything.

      The YouTube channel <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@doranchak&#x2F;videos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@doranchak&#x2F;videos by David Oranchak, one of the people who solved the Z340 cypher, has some more details on this as well as how the Z340 cypher was cracked.

      1. shmeeed · 1790100522 · focus · HN ↗

         Recently posted in a similar thread about AI breaking a cypher: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;allthatsinteresting.com&#x2F;zodiac-killer-cipher-solved" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;allthatsinteresting.com&#x2F;zodiac-killer-cipher-solved

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         2. blincoln · 1790168024 · focus · HN ↗

            This is the forum thread where the person in question posted his theory:

            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.zodiackillerciphers.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;zodiac-cipher-mailings-discussion&#x2F;detailed-solution-to-z13-and-z32&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.zodiackillerciphers.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;zodiac-ciphe...

            Looks extremely unconvincing to me.

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