An AI cracked a 373-year-old cipher by noticing the key was hiding in the book itself

In 1653, Sir Thomas Urquhart, a Scottish writer and translator, published a book called Logopandecteision, an introduction to an artificial language that he had created. The end of the book had two lines with 32 numbers on each line. People assumed it was some kind of a cipher and have been trying to crack it ever since. — Read the rest The post An AI cracked a 373-year-old cipher by noticing the key was hiding in the book itself appeared first on Boing Boing.