AnalysisAI ModelsSeptember 25, 2026

GPT-6 Astra breaks Enigma message unsolved since 2005

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Carter Leffer directed OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra at unbroken Enigma messages on Crypto Cellar Research; it picked Nr. 172, MVUEH, built its own Enigma simulator and Bombe in Python and C++, and used the repeated place name ROSENOW as a crib to recover the key and plaintext. Frode Weierud validated the break, saying it left him in "awe."

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