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THE SECRET WAR ON THE ITALIAN FRONT IN WWI (1915 – 1918)
14.9 H.M. Vittorio Emanuele III visits the Army Radio-telegraphic and Electro-technical Workshop in Rome
(ISCAG Archive)
Sacco, however, never parted with cryptology and continued, for most of his life, the activity in
this field. In addition to writing the ‘Manuale’ and taking care of three editions of the book, he
delivered many classes on the subject . He remained committed to spreading the cryptographic
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culture across the Italian Armed Forces, and finally worked to improve the Army tools in this field:
an encoding machine patented in 1941 and entrusted for its construction to the Nistri company in
Rome, has unfortunately been lost .
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57 Sacco started teaching cryptology in the courses for the Intelligent Service Officers in 1920s and continued for more than
20 years.
58 Paolo Bonavoglia, La crittografia da Atbash an RSA, www.crittologia.eu/bio/sacco.htm.
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