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).
this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
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