Carter Church has Astra decode a 217-year-old Napoleonic cipher letter and spot a dating error
Given a scan of an encrypted letter sent to one of Napoleon's generals 217 years ago, Astra transcribed about 1,300 cipher symbols, found a partial historical key, built a solver for the rest, decoded the letter, and noticed the original date was wrong.
this is so fucking cool. carter church gave gpt-6 astra a scanned image of a 217-year-old encrypted letter sent to one of napoleon’s generals. six hours later it had transcribed ~1,300 cipher symbols, found a partial historical key, built a solver for the rest and decoded the letter. and while doing it, it figured out the fucking letter had been dated incorrectly. what an insane time to be alive.
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