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nexawave-aitoday at 2:43 PM3 repliesview on HN

I wonder, with all the recent announcements about LLMs assisting humans in deciphering encrypted messages, whether they could potentially be leveraged to decipher the Zodiac Killer’s two remaining unsolved ciphers.


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rhdunntoday at 2:59 PM

The two remaining Zodiac cyphers are very short: 13 characters and 32 characters respectively. As the messages don't share a cypher with the other messages they could theoretically be anything.

The YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@doranchak/videos by David Oranchak, one of the people who solved the Z340 cypher, has some more details on this as well as how the Z340 cypher was cracked.

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sirbutterstoday at 6:06 PM

would really be incredible if it managed to pull the identity

Rover222today at 3:27 PM

now we're talking