'Is it suspicious that such an obvious thing wasn’t discovered in 25 years?': AI keeps breaking old encryption mysteries, and quietly dunking on humans in the process
- GPT-6 Astra has cracked the code on a 19th-century military cipher
- Claude AI has also been busy testing elliptical curve encryption
- Both breakthroughs highlight the increasing capabilities of AI models
AI continues to push the boundaries in almost every task it gets given, and two new reports highlight the tech's growing capabilities when it comes to code-breaking and testing widely used encryption security protocols.
First up, Japan Today reveals that AI engineer Carter Church has used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model to crack a written code used by one of Napoleon Bonaparte's generals more than 200 years ago. The message dates from 1809, and mentions the positions of troops belonging to France and its allies.
The letter was sitting ignored in an online archive when Church decided to give it a go. Manually decoding the symbols, numbers, and letters could have taken weeks, but the AI was done in just six...
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