Luigi Sacco

Luigi Sacco (1 August 1883 in Alba – 5 December 1970 in Rome) was an Italian general and cryptanalyst.[1]

At the entrance of Italy into WWI, he was a captain serving with radio-telegraphy troops. As specialist in direction finding he led the effort to locate and intercept Austro-Hungarian radiograms on the frontline, but due to a lack cryptanalysts they weren't being decrypted, so in 1916 he had to learn cryptanalysis himself. After the war he wrote books on cryptography.[2]

Bibliography

Manual of Cryptology ("Manuale di Crittografia") (1936) ISBN 0-89412-016-6

References

  1. ^ "Methods of Transposition". Retrieved 4 March 2010.
  2. ^ Bonavoglia, Paolo (2018-05-04). "A 1916 World War I notebook of Luigi Sacco". Cryptologia. 42 (3): 205–221. doi:10.1080/01611194.2017.1362064. ISSN 0161-1194.


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