A 370-Year-Old Cipher Just Got Cracked by AI in One Sitting
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There's a puzzle over three hundred years old that stumped every codebreaker who ever attempted it. Nobody had solved it. Not once. It's called the Cyphral Distich, just two lines of numbers, thirty-two per line, tucked at the end of Sir Thomas Urquhart's 17th-century book. Think of it like an intr…
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- 2026-09-14 18:30 · DEV Community — AI
A 370-Year-Old Cipher Just Got Cracked by AI in One Sitting