ADFGVX Cipher

ADFGVX Cipher

In cryptography, the ADFGVX cipher was a field cipher used by the German Army on the Western Front during World War I. ADFGVX was in fact an extension of an earlier cipher called ADFGX.

Invented by Colonel Fritz Nebel and introduced in March 1918, the cipher was a fractionating transposition cipher which combined a modified Polybius square with a single columnar transposition.

Read more about ADFGVX Cipher:  Nomenclature, Operation of ADFGX, ADFGVX, Cryptanalysis, Other Uses

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