GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
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- Scienceblogs.de lists 50 unsolved ciphers, including WWI German radio messages encoded with the ADFGVX method.
- The ADFGVX cipher uses a 6x6 grid with letters and digits, where each two-letter pair maps to a character based on a key word.
- GPT-4 Astra decoded a previously unsolved German message from November 27, 1918, using the key 'TRUPPENVERSCHIEBUNG'.
- The decoded message reports an English cruiser arriving at Sevastopol and an Allied squadron following, with historical records confirming these events.