AI Cracks Napoleon III's 166-Year-Old Encrypted Letters

A history enthusiast used Astra and Claude to crack the private telegraph cipher used by Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie around the 1859 Battle of Solferino, revealing letters sealed in archives since 1916.

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