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Caesar cipher (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 6 months ago by dantheclamman to c/wikipedia

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[–] WR5 5 points 6 months ago

One of the first ciphers/codes you will find in any cryptography or puzzle books! This is a form of ROT cipher which is a substitution cipher using a shifted alphabet. I believe Caesar used a ROT+3, but ROT13 is also really common (which shifts the English alphabet by exactly half).