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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

Fable 5.1, a cryptographic tool developed by researchers, has successfully solved the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher created by cryptographer Edward Phillips. The Cyphral Distich is a polyalphabetic substitution cipher that uses a table of letters and their corresponding substitutions. Fable 5.1 was able to solve the cipher after being provided with a partially solved version of the cipher. The tool used a combination of machine learning and cryptographic techniques to deduce the correct substitutions and ultimately crack the code. The solution was verified by comparing the decrypted text with a known plaintext version of the message.

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