Codes and Villains and Mystery: The Best Stories with Codes and Ciphers 1843 - 1920 cover
Codes and Villains and Mystery: The Best Stories with Codes and Ciphers 1843 - 1920
by John Dooley
Description: Codes and Villains and Mystery: The Best Stories with Codes and Ciphers 1843 - 1920 collects fictional tales from the mid-19th to early 20th century where codes and ciphers feature prominently in the plotlines
ISBN: 1535470232
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gsf_emergency_2 · 2025-09-29 · Original thread
>One surprising thing I learned is that ChatGPT can solve the word segmentation problem quite well, and it can even add punctuation and capitalization back into the message. While LLMs are far too slow to participate in the performance-intensive crack (we can use simpler heuristics like trigrams for that,) their ability to make semantic sense of partially mangled text might still be useful in automating the “sense of rightness” which hitherto has been left to human cryptographers.

Also. Plot device in Cryptonomicon (iirc)

Lagniappe https://www.amazon.com/Codes-Villains-Mystery-Stories-Cipher...