Telegrams on Negotiations on Capturing Petrograd, 1919

Authors

  • Samu Potka
  • Mikko Kiviharju

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp188405

Keywords:

irregular columnar transposition, cipher, hill climbing, telegrams, Russian Civil War, Petrograd, Finland

Abstract

We decipher a 1919 telegram encrypted with an irregular columnar transposition cipher. The telegram details negotiations between Finnish activists and the Russian anti-Bolshevik White Movement regarding capturing Petrograd.

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Published

2022-06-09

Issue

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Historical Cryptology HistoCrypt 2022

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Copyright (c) 2022 Samu Potka, Mikko Kiviharju

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