GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
For example, in this text, “AA” corresponds to the letter H, “AD” corresponds to the letter O, “DA” corresponds to the letter B, and so on. Still, over a dozen have thus far eluded efforts to solve them, including (to my knowledge) this one, originally transmitted on November 27, 1918 (pg. Rives Childs's “The History and Principles of German Military Ciphers, 1914–1918”.
- ▪For example, in this text, “AA” corresponds to the letter H, “AD” corresponds to the letter O, “DA” corresponds to the letter B, and so on.
- ▪Still, over a dozen have thus far eluded efforts to solve them, including (to my knowledge) this one, originally transmitted on November 27, 1918 (pg.
- ▪Rives Childs's “The History and Principles of German Military Ciphers, 1914–1918”.
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GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio CipherprinzSep 17, 20261713ShareScienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range from cryptograms published by serial killers to the famous Voynich manuscript.Among these ciphers is a set of German radio messages from World War I that were encoded using the ADFGVX method.This method is illustrated by the following example using the word “HOUSE” as the key: A D F G V X A H O U S E A D B C D F G I F J K L M N P G Q R T V W X V Y Z 0 1 2 3 X 4 5 6 7 8 9As you can see, ADFGVX is used both horizontally and vertically to give each “cell” in the table a value.
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