Cipher Challenge
The Petrograd Negotiations Telegram
General Miller sent this telegram during 1919 negotiations over a proposed Finnish and White Russian operation against Petrograd. The 1,400-character message uses irregular columnar transposition and preserves four damaged five-character groups as dots. Complete transcription and cryptanalysis, CC BY 4.0
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- Historical cipher
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Ciphertext
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