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Without digital tools, the task could have taken weeks, but the latest model from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI broke the cipher in just six hours.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
At the Pyry Conference near Warsaw in 1939, Polish cryptologists invited French and British counterparts, including Alastair Denniston and Dilly Knox, to share their pioneering success in breaking the German Enigma machine cipher.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
The KGB, which never cracked the cipher, probably felt it had won at the moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
For the public’s purposes, she was a cipher onto which we were urged to project our romantic fantasies.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026
She told Santry that when she and William had traveled to Spain, Barbara “sent us messages in cipher all the time.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Researchers were already developing AI models to break ciphers, but the public release of state-of-the-art generalist tools has unleashed dozens of new solutions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The love he once had for baseball he now felt for a strange and mysterious place that was as old as history itself yet as secretive as the classical ciphers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
They were challenged to embed hidden codes, and ciphers into their designs.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
But I am calling for a little more emotional clarity from the adults who condemn these students for being imperfect ciphers of morality.
From Slate ● May 2, 2024
These mixes of codes and ciphers were a headache to crack.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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You can let a computer create various passwords and convert them into ciphered values using known hash functions.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 13, 2023
Also known as Mary Stuart, the then deposed queen of Scotland, who was a contender for the English throne, wrote these 57 ciphered letters between 1578 and 1584.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2023
The ciphered letters were believed to be Italian.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2023
But they were stumped by the even more complex ciphered messages being transmitted among Hitler and the generals Erwin Rommel, Wilhelm Keitel, Gerd von Rundstedt and Alfred Jodl.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2014
That empty cup so neatly ciphered, 'Time,' Handed me as a cordial for despair.
From Views and Reviews by Henry James
“They will occupy historians of Britain and Europe and students of the French language and early modern ciphering techniques for many years to come,” he said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
He used intricate script to write in a ciphering book, which was kept by students of the day to progress through the entirety of their mathematics education.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2021
He expressed his ciphering talent in an addendum to a letter his wife wrote on July 14, 1897.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2021
This reminds us of when some big, musty steamer trunk of a bill gets plopped down in Congress and the poor folks at the Congressional Budget Office get to ciphering.
From Fox News ● May 5, 2020
I axed Syl, “So you learnt how to do ciphering in that school?”
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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