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  • I asked Astra to describe the content of pages 214-215 of the source it cited in this article (J. Rives Childs's The History and Principles of German Military Ciphers). It said it can't and it can't find this book online either.
    by eis
  • Or, it found a human that solved it in the dataset and stole the solution.
    by sehw
  • To save everyone a click, the message, translated to English, is "AN ENGLISH CRUISER ARRIVED AT SEVASTOPOL ON THE ?4TH AN ALLIED SQUADRON FOLLOWS ON THE 26TH"

    I was surprised to see that the message was sent on November 27, 1918. That's a few weeks after the war ended, and I won't have expected the German military to still be monitoring military activity in the Black Sea, given how far that is from Germany.

    by run414
  • And here I am using it to generate crappy text summaries of work.
    by donatj
  • "You can't hide secrets from the future" - MC Frontalot
    by davidmurdoch
  • Can the ships logs be found on the internet? If so, the model could've manufactured a fake key and corresponding message. I think this is unlikely but should probably still be considered.
    by iltk
  • Using an existing published key, which people hadn’t tried because the message was sent before the key was supposed to be used.

    This headline is misleading.

    by grey-area
  • 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.

    https://aaymeloglu.github.io/unsolved-ciphers/

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

    https://dbourdeau.github.io/cyphersolver/index.html

    by aaymeloglu

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