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The German WWI field cipher that split every letter into two of six letters and then shuffled the result — until Georges Painvin broke it.

Type

fractionation + transposition cipher

Breaking it

hard to break by hand

Era

1918 (World War I)

Name

Fritz Nebel, German army signal corps

Modes

encrypt · decrypt · cryptanalysis

Ciphertext to break
Variant

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Key length
II
Columns
III
Square

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