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The message, which was sent by a radio station with the tactical callsign 2ny, was received by the radio station of the SS-Totenkopf Quartiermeister, Ib. Ib received the message at 17:30 on 10 July 1941 and logged the message as Nr. 172 in its log of incoming messages for July 1941. Since 2005, the message has resisted all attempts to break it. \n\nOn 9 June 2017, Alex Shovkoplyas succeeded in breaking another unbroken message from this day, Nr. 173, SIPVX. However, the Enigma key he recovered for the message differed slightly from the daily Enigma key for 10 July 1941 used for all other messages from this day. The SIPVX key used the same wheel order, 512, as the daily key, but the plug connections (Stecker) and ring setting (Ringstellung) differed. However, the new key did not allow us to break the MVUEH message.\n\nAfter Carter Leffer sent the MVUEH break details, it was immediately clear he had found the correct key and plaintext. The MVUEH key turns out to be completely different from the other keys from 10 July 1941; even the wheel order differs: 253 instead of 512 for the other two keys. More surprising is that the plaintext is almost identical to the plaintext for message Nr. 173, SIPVX. The two messages differ in length by twelve letters. MVUEH is 82 letters long, while SIPVX has 94 letters. This difference is due to a mistake when enciphering the word Bitte in MVUEH, which resulted in Btte, and to the sender\u2019s signature, Waschbusch, being repeated in the SIPVX message.\n\nAn analysis of the break revealed that the transcription of the MVUEH ciphertext from the original message form contained several errors, and the break revealed that the Enigma\u2019s left-hand wheel makes a turnover at the 72nd letter. A turnover of the Enigma\u2019s left-hand wheel, which rarely occurs, is known to complicate a break. These factors may have prevented an earlier break. \n\nHowever, the most astonishing thing about this break is that the GPT\u20136 Astra did it entirely on its own. Carter Leffer only directed GPT\u20136 Astra to see if it could break any of the unbroken Enigma messages published on the Crypto Cellar Research web page. After analysing the unbroken messages on the website, it decided that the most promising message was Nr. 172, MVUEH and it also quickly suspected that the plaintext of Nr. 173, SIPVX, might be related to the plaintext of the unbroken MVUEH message. After trying many different approaches, GPT\u20136 Astra focused on using the repeated place name ROSENOW ROSENOW as a crib. After developing the necessary Python and C++ software for an Enigma simulator and an Enigma Bombe, GPT\u20136 Astra started a thorough break with the ROSENOW crib, which in the end resulted in the correct key and plaintext for the MVUEH message being found. \n\nWe are still analysing the GPT\u20136 Astra logs to see exactly how it executed the break. And we are discovering amazing details. In July 2026, I made the following announcement on the webpage with the 1941 Message List:\n\n\nNote: In July 2026, research in the German Bundesarchiv revealed several\ncollections of radio messages, both enciphered and in cleartext. One of\nthese message collections was from SS-Totenkopf Division\u2019s logistics\ncommand, Nachschubf\u00fchrer. Many of these messages were sent to the Ib\n(Quartiermeister) radio station and are identical to those in this list.\nOthers are new, but most likely related. These new messages are added to\nthe 1941 Message List in bold, with the indicator NF (Nachschubf\u00fchrer)\nafter the message number, indicating that these message numbers belong\nto the NF numbering. All NF messages are outgoing; hence, the message\nnumbers are in blue.\n\n\nIt appears that GPT\u20136 Astra discovered this note about the collections of radio messages at the German Bundesarchiv, because in one of the logs we find the following:\n\n\nOriginal-source access lead. The completed evidence pass traced the received corpus to a private collection and found concrete Bundesarchiv radio-message volumes, including RS 3\u20133/20a and RS 3\u20133/63b. Catalogue records have been inspected; the original received no.172 image remains unlocated, and the available archive viewer has not yet exposed the relevant scans in this environment. 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Personally, I spent several weeks researching the Bundesarchiv files GPT\u20136 Astra refers to.\n\nThe AI break of the Enigma message MVUEH is simply amazing, and as an old cryptanalyst, I am still in awe.\n\nUpdated: 19 September 2026 at 08:41 UTC\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\tBack to Crypto Cellar Research\n\tLicensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Frode Weierud, Crypto Cellar Research\u00a9 2026\n\tBreaking German Wehrmacht Ciphers" ], "output": "readability", "pwd": "/data/archive/1790114708.518842", "schema": "ArchiveResult", "start_ts": "2026-09-23T19:18:45.958309+00:00", "status": "succeeded" }, { "cmd": [ "/app/node_modules/readability-extractor/readability-extractor", "/tmp/tmpbz7mcfoi", "https://www.cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-mvueh-break.html" ], "cmd_version": "0.0.11", "end_ts": "2026-09-23T16:18:46.968612+00:00", "index_texts": [ "OpenAI GPT\u20136 Astra breaking an Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005.\n\nOn 15 September 2026, Carter Leffer contacted me to request validation of a break of the German Army Enigma message MVUEH of 10 July 1941. The message, which was sent by a radio station with the tactical callsign 2ny, was received by the radio station of the SS-Totenkopf Quartiermeister, Ib. Ib received the message at 17:30 on 10 July 1941 and logged the message as Nr. 172 in its log of incoming messages for July 1941. Since 2005, the message has resisted all attempts to break it. \n\nOn 9 June 2017, Alex Shovkoplyas succeeded in breaking another unbroken message from this day, Nr. 173, SIPVX. However, the Enigma key he recovered for the message differed slightly from the daily Enigma key for 10 July 1941 used for all other messages from this day. The SIPVX key used the same wheel order, 512, as the daily key, but the plug connections (Stecker) and ring setting (Ringstellung) differed. However, the new key did not allow us to break the MVUEH message.\n\nAfter Carter Leffer sent the MVUEH break details, it was immediately clear he had found the correct key and plaintext. The MVUEH key turns out to be completely different from the other keys from 10 July 1941; even the wheel order differs: 253 instead of 512 for the other two keys. More surprising is that the plaintext is almost identical to the plaintext for message Nr. 173, SIPVX. The two messages differ in length by twelve letters. MVUEH is 82 letters long, while SIPVX has 94 letters. This difference is due to a mistake when enciphering the word Bitte in MVUEH, which resulted in Btte, and to the sender\u2019s signature, Waschbusch, being repeated in the SIPVX message.\n\nAn analysis of the break revealed that the transcription of the MVUEH ciphertext from the original message form contained several errors, and the break revealed that the Enigma\u2019s left-hand wheel makes a turnover at the 72nd letter. A turnover of the Enigma\u2019s left-hand wheel, which rarely occurs, is known to complicate a break. These factors may have prevented an earlier break. \n\nHowever, the most astonishing thing about this break is that the GPT\u20136 Astra did it entirely on its own. Carter Leffer only directed GPT\u20136 Astra to see if it could break any of the unbroken Enigma messages published on the Crypto Cellar Research web page. After analysing the unbroken messages on the website, it decided that the most promising message was Nr. 172, MVUEH and it also quickly suspected that the plaintext of Nr. 173, SIPVX, might be related to the plaintext of the unbroken MVUEH message. After trying many different approaches, GPT\u20136 Astra focused on using the repeated place name ROSENOW ROSENOW as a crib. After developing the necessary Python and C++ software for an Enigma simulator and an Enigma Bombe, GPT\u20136 Astra started a thorough break with the ROSENOW crib, which in the end resulted in the correct key and plaintext for the MVUEH message being found. \n\nWe are still analysing the GPT\u20136 Astra logs to see exactly how it executed the break. And we are discovering amazing details. In July 2026, I made the following announcement on the webpage with the 1941 Message List:\n\n\nNote: In July 2026, research in the German Bundesarchiv revealed several\ncollections of radio messages, both enciphered and in cleartext. One of\nthese message collections was from SS-Totenkopf Division\u2019s logistics\ncommand, Nachschubf\u00fchrer. Many of these messages were sent to the Ib\n(Quartiermeister) radio station and are identical to those in this list.\nOthers are new, but most likely related. These new messages are added to\nthe 1941 Message List in bold, with the indicator NF (Nachschubf\u00fchrer)\nafter the message number, indicating that these message numbers belong\nto the NF numbering. All NF messages are outgoing; hence, the message\nnumbers are in blue.\n\n\nIt appears that GPT\u20136 Astra discovered this note about the collections of radio messages at the German Bundesarchiv, because in one of the logs we find the following:\n\n\nOriginal-source access lead. The completed evidence pass traced the received corpus to a private collection and found concrete Bundesarchiv radio-message volumes, including RS 3\u20133/20a and RS 3\u20133/63b. Catalogue records have been inspected; the original received no.172 image remains unlocated, and the available archive viewer has not yet exposed the relevant scans in this environment. 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Personally, I spent several weeks researching the Bundesarchiv files GPT\u20136 Astra refers to.\n\nThe AI break of the Enigma message MVUEH is simply amazing, and as an old cryptanalyst, I am still in awe.\n\nUpdated: 19 September 2026 at 08:41 UTC\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\tBack to Crypto Cellar Research\n\tLicensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Frode Weierud, Crypto Cellar Research\u00a9 2026\n\tBreaking German Wehrmacht Ciphers" ], "output": "readability", "pwd": "/data/archive/1790114708.518842", "schema": "ArchiveResult", "start_ts": "2026-09-23T16:18:45.213879+00:00", "status": "succeeded" }, { "cmd": [ "/app/node_modules/readability-extractor/readability-extractor", "/tmp/tmpk_il7hpc", "https://www.cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-mvueh-break.html" ], "cmd_version": "0.0.11", "end_ts": "2026-09-22T22:05:13.081228+00:00", "index_texts": [ "OpenAI GPT\u20136 Astra breaking an Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005.\n\nOn 15 September 2026, Carter Leffer contacted me to request validation of a break of the German Army Enigma message MVUEH of 10 July 1941. The message, which was sent by a radio station with the tactical callsign 2ny, was received by the radio station of the SS-Totenkopf Quartiermeister, Ib. Ib received the message at 17:30 on 10 July 1941 and logged the message as Nr. 172 in its log of incoming messages for July 1941. Since 2005, the message has resisted all attempts to break it. \n\nOn 9 June 2017, Alex Shovkoplyas succeeded in breaking another unbroken message from this day, Nr. 173, SIPVX. However, the Enigma key he recovered for the message differed slightly from the daily Enigma key for 10 July 1941 used for all other messages from this day. The SIPVX key used the same wheel order, 512, as the daily key, but the plug connections (Stecker) and ring setting (Ringstellung) differed. However, the new key did not allow us to break the MVUEH message.\n\nAfter Carter Leffer sent the MVUEH break details, it was immediately clear he had found the correct key and plaintext. The MVUEH key turns out to be completely different from the other keys from 10 July 1941; even the wheel order differs: 253 instead of 512 for the other two keys. More surprising is that the plaintext is almost identical to the plaintext for message Nr. 173, SIPVX. The two messages differ in length by twelve letters. MVUEH is 82 letters long, while SIPVX has 94 letters. This difference is due to a mistake when enciphering the word Bitte in MVUEH, which resulted in Btte, and to the sender\u2019s signature, Waschbusch, being repeated in the SIPVX message.\n\nAn analysis of the break revealed that the transcription of the MVUEH ciphertext from the original message form contained several errors, and the break revealed that the Enigma\u2019s left-hand wheel makes a turnover at the 72nd letter. A turnover of the Enigma\u2019s left-hand wheel, which rarely occurs, is known to complicate a break. These factors may have prevented an earlier break. \n\nHowever, the most astonishing thing about this break is that the GPT\u20136 Astra did it entirely on its own. Carter Leffer only directed GPT\u20136 Astra to see if it could break any of the unbroken Enigma messages published on the Crypto Cellar Research web page. After analysing the unbroken messages on the website, it decided that the most promising message was Nr. 172, MVUEH and it also quickly suspected that the plaintext of Nr. 173, SIPVX, might be related to the plaintext of the unbroken MVUEH message. After trying many different approaches, GPT\u20136 Astra focused on using the repeated place name ROSENOW ROSENOW as a crib. After developing the necessary Python and C++ software for an Enigma simulator and an Enigma Bombe, GPT\u20136 Astra started a thorough break with the ROSENOW crib, which in the end resulted in the correct key and plaintext for the MVUEH message being found. \n\nWe are still analysing the GPT\u20136 Astra logs to see exactly how it executed the break. And we are discovering amazing details. In July 2026, I made the following announcement on the webpage with the 1941 Message List:\n\n\nNote: In July 2026, research in the German Bundesarchiv revealed several\ncollections of radio messages, both enciphered and in cleartext. One of\nthese message collections was from SS-Totenkopf Division\u2019s logistics\ncommand, Nachschubf\u00fchrer. Many of these messages were sent to the Ib\n(Quartiermeister) radio station and are identical to those in this list.\nOthers are new, but most likely related. These new messages are added to\nthe 1941 Message List in bold, with the indicator NF (Nachschubf\u00fchrer)\nafter the message number, indicating that these message numbers belong\nto the NF numbering. All NF messages are outgoing; hence, the message\nnumbers are in blue.\n\n\nIt appears that GPT\u20136 Astra discovered this note about the collections of radio messages at the German Bundesarchiv, because in one of the logs we find the following:\n\n\nOriginal-source access lead. The completed evidence pass traced the received corpus to a private collection and found concrete Bundesarchiv radio-message volumes, including RS 3\u20133/20a and RS 3\u20133/63b. Catalogue records have been inspected; the original received no.172 image remains unlocated, and the available archive viewer has not yet exposed the relevant scans in this environment. No correspondence has been sent.\n\n\nThe file references GPT\u20136 Astra mentions, RS 3\u20133/20a and RS 3\u20133/63b, are correct, but they are not available on the Crypto Cellar Research website. GPT\u20136 Astra mentions a private collection, but it is not clear what this is, whether it has succeeded in accessing the Bundesarchiv\u2019s digitised collections or whether it has found these files elsewhere. What is clear, though, is that GPT\u20136 Astra is behaving like a very professional cryptanalyst and archive researcher. What it has achieved in two days would take a human researcher weeks or even months. Personally, I spent several weeks researching the Bundesarchiv files GPT\u20136 Astra refers to.\n\nThe AI break of the Enigma message MVUEH is simply amazing, and as an old cryptanalyst, I am still in awe.\n\nUpdated: 19 September 2026 at 08:41 UTC\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\tBack to Crypto Cellar Research\n\tLicensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Frode Weierud, Crypto Cellar Research\u00a9 2026\n\tBreaking German Wehrmacht Ciphers" ], "output": "readability", "pwd": "/data/archive/1790114708.518842", "schema": "ArchiveResult", "start_ts": "2026-09-22T22:05:11.485604+00:00", "status": "succeeded" }, { "cmd": [ "/app/node_modules/readability-extractor/readability-extractor", "/tmp/tmp0fgox_14", "https://www.cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-mvueh-break.html" ], "cmd_version": "0.0.11", "end_ts": "2026-09-24T01:18:39.809815+00:00", "index_texts": [ "OpenAI GPT\u20136 Astra breaking an Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005.\n\nOn 15 September 2026, Carter Leffer contacted me to request validation of a break of the German Army Enigma message MVUEH of 10 July 1941. The message, which was sent by a radio station with the tactical callsign 2ny, was received by the radio station of the SS-Totenkopf Quartiermeister, Ib. Ib received the message at 17:30 on 10 July 1941 and logged the message as Nr. 172 in its log of incoming messages for July 1941. Since 2005, the message has resisted all attempts to break it. \n\nOn 9 June 2017, Alex Shovkoplyas succeeded in breaking another unbroken message from this day, Nr. 173, SIPVX. However, the Enigma key he recovered for the message differed slightly from the daily Enigma key for 10 July 1941 used for all other messages from this day. The SIPVX key used the same wheel order, 512, as the daily key, but the plug connections (Stecker) and ring setting (Ringstellung) differed. However, the new key did not allow us to break the MVUEH message.\n\nAfter Carter Leffer sent the MVUEH break details, it was immediately clear he had found the correct key and plaintext. The MVUEH key turns out to be completely different from the other keys from 10 July 1941; even the wheel order differs: 253 instead of 512 for the other two keys. More surprising is that the plaintext is almost identical to the plaintext for message Nr. 173, SIPVX. The two messages differ in length by twelve letters. MVUEH is 82 letters long, while SIPVX has 94 letters. This difference is due to a mistake when enciphering the word Bitte in MVUEH, which resulted in Btte, and to the sender\u2019s signature, Waschbusch, being repeated in the SIPVX message.\n\nAn analysis of the break revealed that the transcription of the MVUEH ciphertext from the original message form contained several errors, and the break revealed that the Enigma\u2019s left-hand wheel makes a turnover at the 72nd letter. A turnover of the Enigma\u2019s left-hand wheel, which rarely occurs, is known to complicate a break. These factors may have prevented an earlier break. \n\nHowever, the most astonishing thing about this break is that the GPT\u20136 Astra did it entirely on its own. Carter Leffer only directed GPT\u20136 Astra to see if it could break any of the unbroken Enigma messages published on the Crypto Cellar Research web page. After analysing the unbroken messages on the website, it decided that the most promising message was Nr. 172, MVUEH and it also quickly suspected that the plaintext of Nr. 173, SIPVX, might be related to the plaintext of the unbroken MVUEH message. After trying many different approaches, GPT\u20136 Astra focused on using the repeated place name ROSENOW ROSENOW as a crib. After developing the necessary Python and C++ software for an Enigma simulator and an Enigma Bombe, GPT\u20136 Astra started a thorough break with the ROSENOW crib, which in the end resulted in the correct key and plaintext for the MVUEH message being found. \n\nWe are still analysing the GPT\u20136 Astra logs to see exactly how it executed the break. And we are discovering amazing details. In July 2026, I made the following announcement on the webpage with the 1941 Message List:\n\n\nNote: In July 2026, research in the German Bundesarchiv revealed several\ncollections of radio messages, both enciphered and in cleartext. One of\nthese message collections was from SS-Totenkopf Division\u2019s logistics\ncommand, Nachschubf\u00fchrer. Many of these messages were sent to the Ib\n(Quartiermeister) radio station and are identical to those in this list.\nOthers are new, but most likely related. These new messages are added to\nthe 1941 Message List in bold, with the indicator NF (Nachschubf\u00fchrer)\nafter the message number, indicating that these message numbers belong\nto the NF numbering. All NF messages are outgoing; hence, the message\nnumbers are in blue.\n\n\nIt appears that GPT\u20136 Astra discovered this note about the collections of radio messages at the German Bundesarchiv, because in one of the logs we find the following:\n\n\nOriginal-source access lead. The completed evidence pass traced the received corpus to a private collection and found concrete Bundesarchiv radio-message volumes, including RS 3\u20133/20a and RS 3\u20133/63b. Catalogue records have been inspected; the original received no.172 image remains unlocated, and the available archive viewer has not yet exposed the relevant scans in this environment. 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