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Cryptologic Aspects of German Intelligence Activities in South America during World War II
The plain text was divided into five-letter
groups and the following substitution was made
group by group:
The letter J was left plain in all positions. Thus,
MESSAGE would become ZMTLA TM....
In the first transposition rectangle all squares
in the first line to the left of the number corre-
sponding to the date of encipherment were blocked
out. In the second rectangle, the same was done to
the first line squares to the left of the number cor-
responding to the month of encipherment.
The Kryha Machine
The Kryha machine was a
clockwork-powered mechani ...