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AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - AI unlocks Napoleon’s 1809 cipher letter after 217 years

A cybersecurity engineer used OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to decode a 217-year-old cipher letter tied to Napoleon Bonaparte, unlocking military orders unread since 1809. Carter Church, an engineer at SentinelOne, broke a long-sealed message sent to French general Auguste de Marmont by Napoleon’s stepson Eugene, the Viceroy of Italy. The letter had sat unread for 217 […] The post AI unlocks Napoleon’s 1809 cipher letter after 217 years appeared first on American Almanac .

A cybersecurity engineer used OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to decode a 217-year-old cipher letter tied to Napoleon Bonaparte, unlocking military orders unread since 1809. Carter Church, an engineer at SentinelOne, broke a long-sealed message sent to French general Auguste de Marmont by Napoleon’s stepson Eugene, the Viceroy of Italy. The letter had sat unread for 217 years after its cipher key was lost. Daily Mail reporting describes a 1809 dispatch that opens with one line of French, then runs 24 lines of two-digit numbers, stray letters, and invented symbols. Church fed a single image of the plate into GPT-6 Astra, the OpenAI model he used for the job, and the system finished the full multi-modal workflow in six hours. On March 16, 1809,…Open

What specific technical tasks did the GPT-6 Astra model perform to crack the cipher from a single image?
The model sliced a 1,202-by-1,836 plate into rows, read the marks, and determined which of 175 hand-drawn signs represented the same character written twice before breaking the code.
Q&A ID 0285dc5a-3c66-4d8e-b4da-d771589f854e
According to the decoded text, what were the troop strengths and locations for various military forces?
The decoded passage provides the following force counts and locations: 40,000 Bavarians at Munich and Passau; 30,000 Poles on the Vistula; 80,000 French troops at Bayreuth; 60,000 men at Ulm and Donauwörth; 40,000 elite troops at Augsburg and along the Lech; and the army of Friuli numbering 80,000 men.
Q&A ID 75287e04-c36b-4c21-ad98-f3cb9a87b028
What specific AI model was used to complete the multi-modal workflow of decoding the cipher in six hours?
The engineer used OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra.
Q&A ID a3f8be9d-5377-4d9c-803b-b4fedf49ecfc
Who was the sender of the long-sealed message sent to Auguste de Marmont?
The message was sent by Eugene, Napoleon Bonaparte's stepson and the Viceroy of Italy.
Q&A ID a0c08f82-2457-4b87-a9f9-ac7ea8526d36
To which French military leader was the 1809 cipher letter originally addressed?
The letter was sent to French general Auguste de Marmont.
Q&A ID 58ba3bb2-b519-4be7-a79b-1b10f9d74b01
Who used AI to decode the 217-year-old cipher letter and what is his profession?
Carter Church, a cybersecurity engineer at SentinelOne, used OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to decode the letter.
Q&A ID 10b83a90-5571-40f2-a54f-ed368883c305
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