Abstract

Ottoman cryptography, a phenomenon that did not officially exist in Ottoman State, emerged with the development of Ottoman diplomatic bureaucracy in the 19th century. In this article, as well as discussing early applications of official Ottoman cryptography, the traces and features of these efforts which began in the year 1797 have been revealed in the light of encrypted archive documents. Ciphers and encoding/decoding methods of Ottoman diplomats were also investigated in this study. Besides, the initial steps of cryptography amongst the Ottoman-Turks are presented and their characteristics have been assessed in this article.

中文翻译：

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19 世纪早期奥斯曼外交信函的加密方法

摘要

奥斯曼密码学是一种在奥斯曼帝国并未正式存在的现象，是在 19 世纪随着奥斯曼外交官僚机构的发展而出现的。在本文中，除了讨论奥斯曼官方密码学的早期应用外，这些始于 1797 年的努力的痕迹和特征已根据加密的档案文件揭示。本研究还调查了奥斯曼外交官的密码和编码/解码方法。此外，本文还介绍了奥斯曼土耳其人密码学的初始步骤，并评估了它们的特征。