Translation algorithms used to crack centuries-old code
Mark Brown, Wired UK:
Computer scientists from Sweden and the United States have applied modern-day, statistical translation techniques — the sort of which that are used in Google Translate — to decode a 250-year old secret message.
The original document, nicknamed the Copiale Cipher, was written in the late 18th century and found in the East Berlin Academy after the Cold War.
Neato tale of decryption. I won’t spoil what the contents turned out to be, except to say that the description contains the word “eyeballs.”