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Napoleon Bonaparte's letter to general finally cracked after 217 years

Ed Griffiths
Oct 2, 2026 at 11:00
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Napoleon Bonaparte's letter to general finally cracked after 217 years

A Napoleonic letter that had baffled cryptographers for more than two centuries has finally been deciphered with the help of AI.An AI engineer at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne has successfully deciphered the coded message.Carter Church announced this week that he employed OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra system to unlock and transcribe a letter dispatched to General Auguste de Marmont in 1809, revealing previously unknown intelligence about French and Austrian military deployments.The encrypted correspondence was sent on the eve of conflict between France and the Habsburg Empire, as Austria sought to reclaim territory it had lost. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say No one has managed to decode the letter's contents in the 217 years since it was...

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