GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
GPT-6 Astra solved a previously unsolved WWI German ADFGVX radio cipher, recovering a naval movement message verified against HMS Canterbury's logs.
A blog post reports that GPT-6 Astra solved a World War I German ADFGVX radio message from November 27, 1918, one of the unsolved entries on scienceblogs.de's list of 50 ciphers. The model identified "TRUPPENVERSCHIEBUNG" as the encryption key, drawing on J. Rives Childs's history of German military ciphers, and decoded a message reporting an English cruiser arriving at Sevastopol and an Allied squadron following on the 26th. The author cross-checked the plaintext against HMS Canterbury's original logs, which confirm its arrival at Sevastopol on November 24, 1918, lending credibility to the solution.
- Solved a WWI ADFGVX cipher unsolved for over a century
- Recovered key word "TRUPPENVERSCHIEBUNG" from Childs's German military ciphers history
- Decoded message matches HMS Canterbury's log: Sevastopol arrival November 24, 1918
- Part of scienceblogs.de's list of 50 unsolved ciphers
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Scienceblogs. 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.
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