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Cipher Wheel

The document discusses cryptography and provides instructions for assembling and using a cipher wheel to encrypt messages. It explains cutting out plaintext and ciphertext wheels, attaching them with a fastener, and using the wheels to scramble letters or use symbols to encrypt messages.

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Cipher Wheel

The document discusses cryptography and provides instructions for assembling and using a cipher wheel to encrypt messages. It explains cutting out plaintext and ciphertext wheels, attaching them with a fastener, and using the wheels to scramble letters or use symbols to encrypt messages.

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geoghomewood
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CRYPTOGRAPHY

The Science of Secrecy


Plaintext Wheel
b c Assembling your
z a d Cipherwheel
y

e
x

1. Cut out the plaintext and


ciphertext wheels
u v w

f 2. Make a hole at the centre of each


wheel
g h 3. Put the ciphertext wheel on top of
plaintext
laintext

the plaintext wheel,


4. Push a paper fastener through the
two wheels from front to back,
p

and bend the tabs at the back to


i
t

secure the wheels together


j
s

You can create your own cipher on


the blank cipher wheel to make your
k
r

l secret messages harder to crack.


m n q Try writing the letters on in a jumbled
o p order (but remember to use each
letter exactly once!), or use symbols
to create your own alphabet - check
out the CSE Schools website for some
ideas!

Cipher Wheel Blank Cipher Wheel

ZAB CD
Y
E
X
T U VW

FG
CI

CI
PH

PH
ERTEXT

ERTEXT
ERTEXT

ERTEXT
HI J
IPH

IPH
S
RC

C
K

LM
NO P Q

University of Salford
School of Computing, Science and Engineering
www.cse.salford.ac.uk/schools

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