Caesar Cipher

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Caesar Cipher Caesar Cipher

Caesar Cipher

The Caesar Cipher is a substitution cipher.

With a shift value of 3 each letter is replaced with the letter that is 3 positions further forward

Decryption

With a shift value of 3 each letter is replaced with the letter that is 3 positions further back. Alternatively, this is the equivalent of replacing each letter with the letter that is 23 positions further back

Example

The grid below shows the substution values for a shift value of 3

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Caesar Cipher Question

Decode yhkja

Enter Answer

Shift = 22

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The answer is: clone

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