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Cryptography Encryption Substitution Cipher Plaintext Alphabet Julius Caesar

A Caesar cipher is a simple encryption technique where each letter in the original message is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet, such as replacing each letter with the letter 3 positions further down. It was used by Julius Caesar to encrypt private correspondence and works by shifting the letters, so a shift of 3 would change D to A and E to B. While a simple substitution cipher, the encryption method is still used as part of more complex ciphers and to encode messages on the internet.

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Cryptography Encryption Substitution Cipher Plaintext Alphabet Julius Caesar

A Caesar cipher is a simple encryption technique where each letter in the original message is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet, such as replacing each letter with the letter 3 positions further down. It was used by Julius Caesar to encrypt private correspondence and works by shifting the letters, so a shift of 3 would change D to A and E to B. While a simple substitution cipher, the encryption method is still used as part of more complex ciphers and to encode messages on the internet.

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In cryptography, a Caesar cipher, also known as Caesar's cipher, the shift cipher, Caesar's

code or Caesar shift, is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques. It is a
type of substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter some fixed
number of positions down the alphabet. For example, with a left shift of 3, Dwould be replaced
by A, E would become B, and so on. The method is named after Julius Caesar, who used it in his
private correspondence.
The encryption step performed by a Caesar cipher is often incorporated as part of more complex
schemes, such as theVigenre cipher, and still has modern application in the ROT13 system. As
with all single-alphabet substitution ciphers, the Caesar cipher is easily broken and in modern
practice offers essentially no communication security

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