{"slug": "an-ai-cracked-a-373-year-old-cipher-by-noticing-the-key-was-hiding-in-the-book", "title": "An AI cracked a 373-year-old cipher by noticing the key was hiding in the book itself", "summary": "An AI cracked a 373-year-old cipher found in Sir Thomas Urquhart's 1653 book Logopandecteision by noticing the key was hidden in the book itself, according to Boing Boing. The book, an introduction to an artificial language Urquhart created, ended with two lines of 32 numbers each that readers had assumed was a cipher and tried to crack ever since.", "body_md": "In 1653, Sir Thomas Urquhart, a Scottish writer and translator, published a book called [Logopandecteision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logopandecteision), an introduction to an artificial language that he had created.\n\nThe 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](https://boingboing.net/2026/09/14/fountain-pen-cyphral-distich.html) \n\nThe post [An AI cracked a 373-year-old cipher by noticing the key was hiding in the book itself](https://boingboing.net/2026/09/14/fountain-pen-cyphral-distich.html) appeared first on [Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-cracked-a-373-year-old-cipher-by-noticing-the-key-was-hiding-in-the-book", "canonical_source": "https://boingboing.net/2026/09/14/fountain-pen-cyphral-distich.html", "published_at": "2026-09-14 17:48:55+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-14 21:34:31.136556+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Sir Thomas Urquhart", "Logopandecteision", "Boing Boing"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-cracked-a-373-year-old-cipher-by-noticing-the-key-was-hiding-in-the-book", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-cracked-a-373-year-old-cipher-by-noticing-the-key-was-hiding-in-the-book.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-cracked-a-373-year-old-cipher-by-noticing-the-key-was-hiding-in-the-book.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-cracked-a-373-year-old-cipher-by-noticing-the-key-was-hiding-in-the-book.jsonld"}}